Definition of Spanish elm

1. Noun. Tropical American timber tree.

Exact synonyms: Cordia Gerascanthus, Princewood
Group relationships: Cordia, Genus Cordia
Generic synonyms: Tree

2. Noun. Large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spanish Elm

Spanish Virgin Islands
Spanish War
Spanish Water Dog
Spanish Water Dogs
Spanish bayonet
Spanish broom
Spanish burgoo
Spanish capital
Spanish cedar
Spanish cedar tree
Spanish chestnut
Spanish chestnuts
Spanish dagger
Spanish donkey
Spanish donkeys
Spanish elm (current term)
Spanish fever
Spanish flu
Spanish fly
Spanish garlic
Spanish gorse
Spanish green
Spanish grunt
Spanish guitar
Spanish ham
Spanish heath
Spanish influenza
Spanish iris
Spanish lime
Spanish lime tree

Literary usage of Spanish elm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hortus Jamaicensis, Or, A Botanical Description, (according to the Linnean by John Lunan (1814)
"... scarcity of white oak staves, in consequence of the American embargo, on which account I directed ten puncheons to bu made of Santa Maria, Spanish elm, ..."

2. Technical Reports and Scientific Papers by Imperial Institute (Great Britain), Frederick Augustus Abel (1903)
"Spanish elm. Seaside Grape. Calabash. Seaside Mahoe. ... The timber is very durable and is considered one of the test in the island. Spanish elm ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... of which are probably the following: Water elm (Planera aquatica); Spanish elm or Bois-de-Chypre (Cordia ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"leaves of which bear galls used in tanning and dyeing. The паше 'Spanish elm' is given in the West Indies to a tree also called Bois-de-Chypre (Cordia ..."

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