slippery elm
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- a wide-branching North American elm (Ulmus rubra) with fragrant, mucilaginous inner bark and hard wood
- the wood or bark
See slippery elm in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun- A deciduous eastern North American tree (Ulmus rubra) having hard wood and mucilaginous, aromatic inner bark formerly used medicinally.
- The wood of this tree.