Elm
name, noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers. countable
"It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by."
- 2 any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees wordnet
- 3 Wood from an elm tree. attributive, uncountable, usually
- 4 hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture wordnet
- 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.
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- 6 A functional programming language for creating web applications.
"Elm as a language can be seen from different angles. The main purpose of the language and the platform is to create web applications."
Example
More examples"In our Mediterranean forest, there are lots of trees: oak, pine, willow, ash, elm, etc.."
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”).
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