English Explanatory Dictionary

elm

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
  2. Wood from an elm tree.
name
  1. A village and civil parish in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF4706).
  2. An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Missouri, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  4. A village in Glarus canton, Switzerland.
  5. A surname.
  6. A functional programming language for creating web applications.

Pronunciation

ĕlm /ɛlm/ ĕləm /ˈɛləm/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-elm.wav

Word forms

elm elms ellum

Etymology

From Middle English elme, elm, from Old English elm, from Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élem (“mountain elm”). See also dialectal Low German Elm, dialectal German Ilm, archaic German Ilme, Norwegian and Swedish alm; also Irish leamh, Latin ulmus, Albanian ulzë (“maple”).

Synonyms

elven

Related words

Burslem Elmbridge Elmhurst Limoges limousin limousine Newcastle-under-Lyme Nine Elms keyaki kiaki zelkova

Derived words

American elm Atinian elm bastard elm Camperdown elm Caucasian elm cedar elm cherry bark elm chestnut-leafed elm Chinese elm common elm cork elm Cornish elm cutleaf elm Dutch elm disease Dutch elm elm bark beetle elm beetle elmen Elmhurst elm-leaf beetle elmlike elmness Elm Park elm sawfly Elmsdale elm tree elmwood elmy elm yellows English cork elm English elm European field elm European white elm field elm fluttering elm Great Elm Guernsey elm hickory elm Huntingdon elm Japanese elm Jersey elm lacebark elm lobed elm long raceme elm Manchurian elm Mexican elm moose elm multi-nerved elm Nine Elms northern elm purple elm red elm rock elm Russian elm Scotch elm Scots elm September elm Siberian elm slippery elm smaller European elm bark beetle
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