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lime

English

  1. 🔊 the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees
  2. 🔊 any of various related trees bearing limes
  3. 🔊 a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds
  4. 🔊 a caustic substance produced by heating limestone
  5. 🔊 a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide
  6. 🔊 any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers
  7. 🔊 cover with lime so as to induce growth
    “lime the lawn”
  8. 🔊 spread birdlime on branches to catch birds

Similar words

linden linden tree basswood lime tree lime tree citrus aurantifolia birdlime calcium oxide quicklime calx calcined lime fluxing lime unslaked lime burnt lime calcium hydroxide slaked lime hydrated lime calcium hydrate caustic lime lime hydrate birdlime acid acidulant allure