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Definition of Cedar elm
1. Noun. Elm of southern United States and Mexico having spreading pendulous corky branches.
Group relationships: Genus Ulmus, Ulmus
Generic synonyms: Elm, Elm Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cedar Elm
Literary usage of Cedar elm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lumber and Its Uses by Royal Shaw Kellogg (1919)
"Wing and cedar elm are used for the same general pin- poses as white elm. TABLE 81
Factory Uses of Elm Purpose Per Cent Boxes and Crates 29 Furniture and ..."
2. Wood and Forest by William Noyes (1912)
"(See also the sometimes indistinct ring-porous cedar elm, and occasionally winged
elm, which are readily distinguished by the concentric wavy lines of pores ..."
3. The Materials of Construction: A Treatise for Engineers on the Strength of by John Butler Johnson (1904)
"(See also the sometimes indistinct ring-porous cedar-elm, and occasionally winged
elm, which are readily distinguished by the concentric wavy lines of pores ..."
4. The British Dominions in North America, Or, A Topographical and Statistical ...by Joseph Bouchette, Bouchette, Joseph, 1774-1841 by Joseph Bouchette, Bouchette, Joseph, 1774-1841 (1831)
"... loam beneath a rich vegetable mould; the varieties of timber are red spruce,
ash, balsam, black and white birch, cedar, elm, red and white pine. ..."
5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"cedar elm. Tree, attaining 80 ft., with spreading limbs and slender, often
pendulous branches, often furnished when older with 2 opposite corky wings: Ivs. ..."