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elmness

elmness noun: the quality of being an elm tree.

Noun

elmness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being an elm tree.
    • We seem to have become similarly obsessed, abandoning particular, familiar trees in favour of a kind of abstract notion of elmness.1979, December 13, New Scientist, Vol. 84, No. 1185, page 895
    • They were spectral, with all vestige of elmness leached back to the soil by the winter rains: twigs and bark gone from each one, leaving only a pale and spiky skeleton.1983, Tom Vernon, Fat Man on a Roman Road: A Bicycle Exploration of Britain, page 129

Origin of elmness

From elm + -ness.

Questions about elmness

What does elmness mean?
Elmness means the quality of being an elm tree.
What part of speech is elmness?
Elmness is a noun.

Words near elmness in the dictionary

  1. elmiric acids
  2. elmisaurid
  3. elmisaurids
  4. Elmley Castle
  5. elmlike
  6. elmness
  7. elmo
  8. Elmo's fire
  9. Elmo's fires
  10. Elmont
  11. Elmore

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