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slippery elm definition

☆ slippery elm

  1. a wide-branching North American elm (Ulmus rubra) with fragrant, mucilaginous inner bark and hard wood
  2. the wood or bark

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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