Tilia, tiliæ. Plin. A tree bearing fruite as greate as a beane, round & long, in which are seedes like to arage seede: some call it Teile.Leuis tilia.Virg. Molles tiliæ. Ouid.Pinguis tilia.Virg.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
tĭlĭa, ae, f., the linden or lime-tree.I.Lit., Plin. 16, 14, 25, 65; Verg. G. 1, 173; 2, 449; 4, 183; Ov. M. 8, 620; 10, 92. — II.Transf., the inner bark of the linden, barkbands, Plin. 16, 14, 25, 65; cf. of the elm: corticis interior tilia lepras sedat, id. 24, 8, 33, 48.
