limewoodEtymologyFrom lime² (ultimately from Old English lind) + wood.nounThe wood from the lime tree or linden tree.“But he would not publicly confirm his purchase of “Hercules and Achelous,” or another rarity that experts say he bought this year: a limewood figure of St. Catherine by the German Medieval sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider that went for $6.3 million at Sotheby’s in January.”