lime
/laɪm/ sustantivo C2En español: lima, limón, limero
- Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.
- Any of the trees that bear limes, especially Key lime, Citrus aurantiifolia.
- Any of several brilliant, sometimes yellowish, green colours associated with the fruits of a lime tree.
- A particular one of those colours that has been standardized under this name, at least in some organizations' standards.
- A fan fiction story which contains sexual references, but stops short of full, explicit descriptions of sexual activity (coined by analogy with lemon).
Plural limes
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He therefore approached the bed, and while his companion was dipping the fingers with which he had touched the lips of the corpse in chloride of lime, he uncovered the calm and pale face, which looked like that of a sleeping angel.
Shortly afterwards a birdcatcher came and stood under the tree, and laid his lime-twigs for the Dove, which sat in the branches.
She said acorns would produce mistletoe, from which an irremediable poison, the bird-lime, would be extracted and by which they would be captured.
A FOWLER, taking his bird-lime and his twigs, went out to catch birds.
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