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What (who) is BASSWOOD - definition

SPECIES OF PLANT
Basswood; American basswood; American Basswood; American Linden; American linden
  • A specimen in the [[Arnold Arboretum]] leafing out in spring
  • Sections of ''Tilia americana'' from ''[[The American Woods]]''

Basswood         
·noun The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. ·see Bass, the lime tree.
basswood         
['basw?d]
¦ noun a North American lime tree with large leaves. [Tilia americana.]
Polyscias sambucifolia         
Polyscias sambucifolia, commonly known as elderberry panax or small basswood, is a species of plant native to eastern Australia.

Wikipedia

Tilia americana

Tilia americana is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Oklahoma, southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska. It is the sole representative of its genus in the Western Hemisphere, assuming T. caroliniana is treated as a subspecies or local ecotype of T. americana. Common names include American basswood and American linden.

Examples of use of BASSWOOD
1. Amid a jungle of oak, maple, basswood, pine and hemlock, Spittal delights in finding signs of colonial habitation –– a house foundation or an old lilac bush trying to blossom.
2. For a second year, Vermont officials are shooting cormorants on Young, the six–acre island the state owns in Lake Champlain, once a lush preserve of basswood, elm, green ash and cottonwood trees that was host to black–crowned night herons, cattle egrets, great blue herons, fly catchers and orioles.