Large spreading European linden with small dark green leaves; often cultivated as an ornamental(noun)
WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
Use "small-leaved lime" in a sentence
"Of course, we should have made nettle rope, or used twisted bark of the small-leaved lime in the traditional Neolithic way, but we compromised with brown twine."
"Like true woodlanders, George and his wife Sue live perched 800 feet above the treetops of the ancient small-leaved lime woods that cover the south-facing bank of the Wye Gorge upstream from Tintern Abbey."