elm
IPA: ˈɛɫm
noun
- (countable) A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
- (uncountable, usually attributive) Wood from an elm tree.
- A village and civil parish in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF4706).
- An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Missouri, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- A village in Glarus canton, Switzerland.
- A surname.
- (computer languages) A functional programming language for creating web applications.
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Examples of "elm" in Sentences
- The elm is featured on the town seal.
- He uses elm trees, which are pliant and do not break easily.
- The two most frequently struck tree types are the oak and the elm.
- The name of the town derives from the German word for the Elm tree.
- Wu uses young elm trees, which he says are pliant and do not break easily.
- Mount Auburn is the home of the Methodist Church on Elm Street, and the Mt.
- The 1970s saw the loss of many of the trees in the park to Dutch Elm Disease.
- Eggs are laid singly on the girdle scars near the terminal buds of Elm trees.
- This method includes the step of injecting this microorganism into an elm tree.
- In the early part of the last century, Elm trees were dominant in the landscape.
- Deep Ellum = Elm Street in Dallas because, in Texas, the word elm actually has two syllables.
- Ellum was the local pronounciation for the word elm and Deep Ellum was also considered to be far from downtown
- No one is validating or checking any of the data elm is they have surrounded themselves with inexperienced people because of the political favors 'owed.
- These poems are as heartless as birdsong, as unmeant as elm leaves, which, if they love, love only the wide blue sky and the air and the idea of elm leaves.
- The two devastating diseases now facing one of the nation's oldest elm stands are Dutch elm disease, a fungal disease spread by the elm bark beetle and a more recent syndrome known as elm yellows.
- West Elm Goes Organic west elm is now offering certified organic cotton towels and throws, responsibly grown without the use of herbicides or pesticides and dyed with earth-friendly certified dyes.
- Earlier this year at the 2008 Eurocucina show, Italian kitchen manufacturer Snaidero presented the new Kube kitchen model designed by Giovanni Offredi in elm wood, Snaidero has now announced a new version with a gloss ice-white lacquer finish.
- One large elm out of the two on the left-hand side as you enter what I call the elm walk, was likewise blown down; the maypole bearing the weathercock was broke in two, and what I regret more than all the rest is, that all the three elms which grew in
- One large elm, out of the two on the left-hand side as you enter what I call the elm walk, was likewise blown down; the maple bearing the weathercock was broke in two, and what I regret more than all the rest is, that all the three elms which grew in Hall's meadow, and gave such ornament to it, are gone; two were blown down, and the other so much injured that it cannot stand.