noun
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A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
definition
(usually attributive) Wood from an elm tree.
Examples of elm in a Sentence
The elm is also scarce.
There, under the shadow of the elm trees which Bacon had planted, Pepys and his wife constantly walked.
The oak, elm, hazel, ash, apple, lime and maple disappear to the east of the Urals, but reappear in new varieties on the eastern slope of the border-ridge of the great plateau.
In the rest of Italy the elm and the maple are the trees mainly employed as supports.
The chief trees of the country are the aspen (Populus tremuloides), the ash-leaved maple (Negundo aceroides), oak (Quercus alba), elm (Ulmus Americana), and many varieties of willow.
The weeping-willow, myrtle, elm, cypress and eucalyptus are also used in the gardens and plantations.
All trees were long little thought of in comparison with the pine, but of late years poplar and spruce have proved of great value in the making of paper pulp, and hard-wood (oak, beech, ash, elm, certain varieties of maple) is becoming increasingly valuable for use in flooring and the making of furniture.
For instance, the young shoots seen springing from the ground around an elm are not seedlings but root-shoots.
Of the elm (Ulmus) there are five common varieties, the two most cultivated being the rough-leaved elm (Ulmus campestris), which is grown in large quantities in England and North America, and the smooth-leaved wych elm (Ulmus glabra).
Elm is very liable to warp and shake, is porous and usually cross-grained.
The piles of old London Bridge were of elm, and after six centuries of immersion were but little decayed.
Its large variety of trees and shrubs, including oak, hickory, elm, maple, chestnut, birch, ash, cedar, pine, larch and sumach, its flower gardens, a palm house, ponds, a lake of 61 acres for boating, skating and curling, a parade ground of 40 acres for other athletic sports, a menagerie, and numerous pieces of statuary, are among its objects of interest or beauty.
Cotton and leather are manufactured; the country around is fertile, and in the neighbourhood are large forests of oak, beech, elm, chestnut and pine, the timber of which is partly used locally and partly exported to Constantinople.
The city's streets are broad and heavily shaded with a profusion of elm, oak and maple trees.
South of the southern limit indicated, in the midland district of the great lakes, the oak (Quercus pedunculata) appears as well as pine and fir; and, as much of this area is under cultivation, many other trees have been introduced, as the ash, maple, elm and lime.
In the less exposed localities, on northern slopes and sheltered valleys, the European forms become more numerous, and we find species of alder, birch, ash, elm, maple, holly, hornbeam, Pyrus, &c. At greater elevations in the interior, besides the above are met Corylus, the common walnut, found wild throughout the range, horse chestnut, yew, also Picea Webbiana, Pinus, excelsa, Abies Smithiana, Cedrus Deodara (which tree does not grow spontaneously east of Kumaon), and several junipers.
Red oak, birch, elm, ash, white cedar, hemlock, basswood, spruce, poplar, balsam, fir and several other kinds of trees are found in many sections; but a large portion of the merchantable timber, especially in the lower peninsula, has been cut.'
It is common on branches of elder, which it often kills, and is also found on elm, willow, oak and other trees.
The commonest species of trees are such as grow in central Europe, namely, ash, fir, pine, beech, acacia, maple, birch, box, chestnut, laurel, holm-oak, poplar, elm, lime, yew, elder, willow, oak.
This danger has been increased, as elsewhere in Italy, by indiscriminate timber-felling on the higher mountains without provision for re-afforestation, though considerable oak, beech, elm and pine forests still exist and are the home of wolves, wild boars and even bears.
Along the shore of Lake Michigan, and extending inland a quarter of the distance across the state and northward through the Fox River Valley, there was a heavy belt of oak, maple, birch, ash, hickory, elm and some pine.
About 60% (both in quantity and value) of the lumber sawed in 1905 was white pine; next in importance were hemlock (more than one-fourth in quantity), basswood (nearly 4%) and, in smaller quantities, birch, oak, elm, maple, ash, tamarack, Norway pine, cedar and spruce.
The oak, elm and birch are common, while the beech especially attains an unusual size and beauty.
Other varieties, most of which are widely distributed, are the ash, pecan, cottonwood, sycamore, elm, maple, hickory, elder, gum, locust and river birch.
At the base are found vines and maize; on the lower slopes are green pastures, or wheat, barley and other kinds of corn; above are often forests of oak, ash, elm, &c.; and still higher the yew and the fir may be seen braving the climatic conditions.
The prevailing types of trees are the oak, maple, hornbeam, beech, ash and elm.
The specimens are very fragmentary, and all that can be said is that one of the forms may be allied to oak, another to fig, a third to Sapindus, and the fourth may perhaps be near to elm.
But in most parts of the state there are mixed forests of white oak, red oak, ash, red gum, black gum, maple, hickory, chestnut, sycamore, magnolia, tulip tree, cherry, pecan, walnut, elm, beech, locust and persimmon.
Dean left the parking lot on Elm Street, turned left on Church, and after dutifully pausing for a calico cat to stalk a pigeon, he continued out Yoder Avenue, watching the city slowly dissolve in his rearview mirror.
Much of the wych elm has been affected by Dutch Elm Disease and other trees include birch, sycamore and oak.
Woodland is mainly birch although in sheltered places there is some mixed oak and elm.
There is also Elm in the hedgerow, which is the food plant of the White Letter hairstreak butterfly that is becoming quite rare.
Rather than demolish two elm trees in the park a giant domed glass ceiling was built around them.
Slippery elm quickly stops violent diarrhea and allays even convulsive vomiting.
Fast visible image of an ELM in MAST Measurements of neoclassical island evolution appearing to confirm the strong stabilizing role of field curvature effects.
Made of reclaimed elm with a natural finish to bring out the lovely wood grain.
Similarly, there are small woods dominated by birch with sycamore, hazel and ash and with planted elm and larch.
Tall mixed species hedge forms the northern boundary with scrub encroachment, including elm which is dying out.
The computing center has details on how to use elm.
English elm Ulmus procera English Elm is known as " the tall elm " and is the shape of a tall, thick cloud.
The boxes are available in salmon and trout sizes and are made from mahogany, oak, English elm or American black walnut.
The Stocks Tree On the east end of the village green grew the Stocks Tree an old elm of great age.
However, a shortage of yew trees meant that ash, elm or wych elm were also used.
The shield is made of burr elm, rich in color with lots of features throughout the grain.
Written by RJ Jones and LF Grand, this fact sheet provides information on the fungal disease ' Dutch elm disease ' .
Then it loops over the elements elm of list.
Hedgerow species are mixed and include hornbeam, field maple, holly, elm and some bracken to the small plateau area.
On the 21st May both bilge keels, made of Canadian rock elm were removed.
Paul and Debbie own a 1930 mahogany and elm canoe.
Petrography Elm Park Stone is an oolitic limestone from the great oolite of middle Jurassic age.