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elmscape

elmscape noun: a landscape dominated by elm trees.

Noun

elmscape (plural elmscapes)

  1. A landscape dominated by elm trees.
    • It is natural to identify with the landscape and to identify with the English landscape has often meant to identify with the English elmscape.1969, R. H. Richens, elm, Cambridge University Press, page 266
    • North American authors regarded the elms of the English landscape as scarcely as beautiful nor as shapely as their American counterpart but are "John Bullish in their structure, mighty by girth, but short between the ground and their branches." Henry James considered the lushness of the...1984, The Arboricultural Journal, volumes 8-9, page 177

Forms of elmscape

pluralelmscapes

Questions about elmscape

What does elmscape mean?
Elmscape means a landscape dominated by elm trees.
What part of speech is elmscape?
Elmscape is a noun.
What is the plural of elmscape?
The plural of elmscape is elmscapes.

Words near elmscape in the dictionary

  1. Elmose
  2. Elmoses
  3. Elmquist
  4. Elmquists
  5. elms
  6. elmscape
  7. elmscapes
  8. Elmsdale
  9. Elmses
  10. Elmsford
  11. Elmshorn

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