Lexic.us

Definition of Spanish elm

1. Noun. Tropical American timber 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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