Definition of Elm tree

1. Noun. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Elm Tree

elliptographs
ellisite
ellisize
ellisized
ellisizes
ellisizing
ello
ellops
ellopses
ells
ellwand
ellwands
elm
elm family
elm tree (current term)
elmen
elmier
elmiest
elmiric
elmiric acid
elms
elmwood
elmwoods
elmy
elne
elning
elocation
elocular
elocute

Literary usage of Elm tree

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

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"CORNISH ELM. Tree, with short ascending branches forming a dense, narrow pyramid: ... CEDAR ELM. Tree, attaining 80 ft., with spreading limbs and slender, ..."

2. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, James Hammond Trumbull, Connecticut Council of Safety, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1885)
"... 194 rods to a large elm tree standing on the land of John Clemens junr, thence north 20| degrees east 360 rods to a heap of stones near Amos ..."

3. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"shall be eaten, as an elm tree, or as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves; so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. ..."

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