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Definition of Spanish elm
1. Noun. Tropical American timber tree.
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.
Group relationships: Cordia, Genus Cordia
Generic synonyms: Angiospermous Tree, Flowering Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spanish Elm
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 ..."