Teil \Teil\, n. [OF. teil, til, L. tilia.] (Bot.)
   The lime tree, or linden; -- called also teil tree.
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Teil tree
   (an old name for the lime-tree, the tilia), Isa. 6:13, the
   terebinth, or turpentine-tree, the Pistacia terebinthus of
   botanists. The Hebrew word here used (elah) is rendered oak
   (q.v.) in Gen. 35:4; Judg. 6:11, 19; Isa. 1:29, etc. In Isa.
   61:3 it is rendered in the plural "trees;" Hos. 4:13, "elm"
   (R.V., "terebinth"). Hos. 4:13, "elm" (R.V., "terebinth"). In 1
   Sam. 17:2, 19 it is taken as a proper name, "Elah" (R.V. marg.,
   "terebinth").
   
     "The terebinth of Mamre, or its lineal successor, remained
   from the days of Abraham till the fourth century of the
   Christian era, and on its site Constantine erected a Christian
   church, the ruins of which still remain."
   
     This tree "is seldom seen in clumps or groves, never in
   forests, but stands isolated and weird-like in some bare ravine
   or on a hill-side where nothing else towers above the low
   brushwood" (Tristram).