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elm (elm)

adjective

designating a family (Ulmaceae, order Urticales) of dicotyledonous trees growing largely in the North Temperate Zone

Etymology: ME & OE, akin to OHG elm: see elder

noun

  1. any of a genus (Ulmus) of tall, deciduous shade trees of the elm family, once widely planted as a lawn tree
  2. its hard, heavy wood

elm Synonyms

elm

n.

Varieties of elm trees include: American, white, red, slippery, weeping, wych, dwarf, Dutch, English, Japanese, Siberian, Chinese, Grand Rapids oak*;

elm Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • reclaim: Made of reclaimed elm with a natural finish to bring out the lovely wood grain.
  • plant: Similarly, there are small woods dominated by birch with sycamore, hazel and ash and with planted elm and larch.
  • include: Tall mixed species hedge forms the northern boundary with scrub encroachment, including elm which is dying out.
  • use: The computing center has details on how to use elm.

Adjective modifier

  • slippery: Whenever there are symptoms of gastro intestinal distress, I think first of slippery elm.
  • mature: There are two mature elms in the hedgerow in this picture - Do they have resistance to the disease?
  • tall: English Elm Ulmus procera English Elm is known as " the tall elm " and is the shape of a tall, thick cloud.
  • dead: With their bark removed, the gallery of the beetle may be seen on the trunk of dead elms.
  • English: The boxes are available in salmon and trout sizes and are made from mahogany, oak, English elm or American black walnut.
  • old: The Stocks Tree On the east end of the village green grew the Stocks Tree an old elm of great age.

Modifies a noun

  • bark: In the autumn, elm bark beetles colonize the bark of diseased trees for breeding purposes.
  • beetle: It is caused by infection of the tree by a fungus which is transmitted from tree to tree by elm bark beetles.
  • tree: Rather than demolish two elm trees in the park a giant domed glass ceiling was built around them.
  • fungus: Multiple mitochondrial viruses in an isolate of the Dutch elm disease fungus Ophiostoma novo-ulmi.
  • disease: Similarly, the first report of Dutch elm disease in the USA was in Ohio in 1930.
  • hedge: There are some pure elm hedges, often unmanaged.

Noun used with modifier

  • wych: However, a shortage of yew trees meant that ash, elm or wych elm were also used.
  • burr: The shield is made of burr elm, rich in color with lots of features throughout the grain.
  • dutch: Written by RJ Jones and LF Grand, this fact sheet provides information on the fungal disease ' dutch elm disease ' .
  • element: Then it loops over the elements elm of list.
elm Quotes

   The last light has gone out of the world, except This moonlight lying on the grass like frost Beyond the brink of the tall elm's shadow.

—Thomas, (Philip) Edward

The sailing pine, the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspen good for staves, the cypress funeral. The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepeth still, The willow worn of forlorn paramours, The ewe obedient to the benders will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platan round, The carver holme, the maple seldom inward sound.

—Spenser, Edmund

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