Wych Elm Definition

wichelm
noun
A small variety of elm (Ulmus glabra), native to Europe and N Asia.
Webster's New World
Its wood.
Webster's New World
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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wych elm
Plural:
wych-elms

Origin of Wych Elm

  • From Middle English wiche from Old English wice weik-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Old English wiche a kind of elm, Anglo-Saxon wice a kind of tree. Compare wicker.

    From Wiktionary

Wych Elm Sentence Examples

  • Of the elm (Ulmus) there are five common varieties, the two most cultivated being the rough-leaved elm (Ulmus campestris), which is grown in large quantities in England and North America, and the smooth-leaved wych elm (Ulmus glabra).

  • Much of the wych elm has been affected by Dutch Elm Disease and other trees include birch, sycamore and oak.

  • However, a shortage of yew trees meant that ash, elm or wych elm were also used.

  • Of deciduous trees the sycamore, wych-elm, horse-chestnut, beech, lime, plane and poplar may be used, - the abele or white poplar, Populus alba, being one of the most rapidgrowing of all trees, and, like other poplars, well suited for nursing other choicer subjects; while of evergreens, the holm oak, holly, laurel (both common and Portugal), and such conifers as the Scotch, Weymouth and Austrian pines, with spruce and (South.) silver firs and yews, are suitable.

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