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ELM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees
Synonyms:
elm; elm tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("elm" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Meronyms (substance of "elm"):
elm; elmwood (hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elm"):
rock elm; Ulmus thomasii (tall widely distributed elm of eastern North America)
Ulmus alata; wing elm; winged elm (North American elm having twigs and young branches with prominent corky projections)
American elm; rock elm; Ulmus americana; water elm; white elm (large ornamental tree with graceful gradually spreading branches common in eastern North America)
European field elm; smooth-leaved elm; Ulmus carpinifolia (European elm with lustrous smooth leaves used as an ornamental)
cedar elm; Ulmus crassifolia (elm of southern United States and Mexico having spreading pendulous corky branches)
Ulmus glabra; witch elm; wych elm (Eurasian elm often planted as a shade tree)
Dutch elm; Ulmus hollandica (any of various hybrid ornamental European shade trees ranging from dwarf to tall)
Huntingdon elm; Ulmus hollandica vegetata (erect vigorous hybrid ornamental elm tree)
Ulmus laevis; water elm (Eurasian elm closely resembling the American elm; thrives in a moist environment)
Chinese elm; Ulmus parvifolia (small fast-growing tree native to Asia; widely grown as shelterbelts and hedges)
English elm; European elm; Ulmus procera (broad spreading rough-leaved elm common throughout Europe and planted elsewhere)
Chinese elm; dwarf elm; Siberian elm; Ulmus pumila (fast-growing shrubby Asian tree naturalized in United States for shelter or ornament)
red elm; slippery elm; Ulmus rubra (North American elm having rough leaves that are red when opening; yields a hard wood)
guernsey elm; Jersey elm; Ulmus campestris sarniensis; Ulmus campestris wheatleyi; Ulmus sarniensis; wheately elm (a variety of the English elm with erect branches and broader leaves)
red elm; September elm; Ulmus serotina (autumn-flowering elm of southeastern United States)
Holonyms ("elm" is a member of...):
genus Ulmus; Ulmus (type genus of family Ulmaceae; deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves; widely distributed in temperate regions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture
Synonyms:
elm; elmwood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("elm" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Holonyms ("elm" is a substance of...):
elm; elm tree (any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees)
Context examples:
About half a mile beyond Highbury, making a sudden turn, and deeply shaded by elms on each side, it became for a considerable stretch very retired; and when the young ladies had advanced some way into it, they had suddenly perceived at a small distance before them, on a broader patch of greensward by the side, a party of gipsies.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
So here we are, installed in this beautiful old house, and from both my bedroom and the drawing-room I can see the great elms of the cathedral close, with their great black stems standing out against the old yellow stone of the cathedral and I can hear the rooks overhead cawing and cawing and chattering and gossiping all day, after the manner of rooks—and humans.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
‘I suppose it is impossible to find out how high the elm was?’ I asked.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There are Mr. Murdstone, our neighbour Mr. Grayper, Mr. Chillip, and I. When we go out to the door, the Bearers and their load are in the garden; and they move before us down the path, and past the elms, and through the gate, and into the churchyard, where I have so often heard the birds sing on a summer morning.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The sun was yet low in the heaven, and the red cows stood in the long shadow of the elms, chewing the cud and gazing with great vacant eyes at two horsemen who were spurring it down the long white road which dipped and curved away back to where the towers and pinnacles beneath the flat-topped hill marked the old town of Winchester.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were two guides given us to start with, an oak and an elm.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That must have been difficult, Holmes, when the elm was no longer there.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then I took two lengths of a fishing-rod, which came to just six feet, and I went back with my client to where the elm had been.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
‘Have you any old elms?’ I asked.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We had driven up in a dog-cart, and my client led me away at once, without our entering the house, to the scar on the lawn where the elm had stood.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
