Complete Definition of "elm"

English
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Etymology
Old English elm#Old English|elm, from Germanic *elmaz, from Indo-European. Cognate with dialectal German Ilm, Swedish alm; and (from Indo-European) with Latin ulmus.

Pronunciation
AHD|�lm, IPA|/�lm/, SAMPA|/elm/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�lm|-�lm

Noun
en-noun

  1. a tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers
  2. (usually attributive) wood from an elm tree

Derived terms
top2
Caucasian elm
Chinese elm
Dutch elm disease
Japanese elm
Manchurian elm
mid2
Northern elm
Purple elm
Siberian elm
Southern elm

Translations

Albanian: vidh m
Catalan: om m
CJKV Characters: �, 楡; 櫸, �
Chinese: ��
Dutch: olm m, iep m
Finnish: jalava (1,2)
French: orme m
German: Ulme f
Greek: λε�κα f
Hebrew: ��ק�צ� f, �����ס m
mid
Hungarian: szil
Italian: olmo m
Japanese: �� (nire)
Korean: ���무
Romanian: ulm m
Russian: в�з m (vjaz), ил�м (il'm) m
Slovene: brest m
Spanish: olmo m
Swedish: alm
Welsh: llwyfen f

See also
keyaki, kiaki
zelkova


Catalan

Noun
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