Color Names

Basswood

Dusty wood, like the trunk of a linden tree after a dry summer.

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Basswood is a warm beige, close to brown.

It can be described as warm, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Basswood

Tilia americana

Tilia americana is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae. It is 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.

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basswood

Noun

  1. Any of several trees of the genus Tilia; the lindens, especially Tilia americana, the American basswood.
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