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• This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet.From the entry rise
• F3 is situated on slightly higher ground, and is dominated by European white elm.2015, Márton Kiss, Viktória Cseh, Eszter Tanács, “Carbon Sequestration of Different Types of Floodplain Forests in the Maros River Valley…. From the entry European white elm
• There are remnants of a stonewall at the elm tree on Burrough Road.2012, Walter G. Robillard, Clark on Surveying and Boundaries: 2012 Cumulative Supplement, 7th edition, Charlottesville, Va.: LexisNexis…. From the entry stonewall
• It is named after the fact that elm was widely planted along this ancient border area.2010, “Survey on the Left-behind Children in Huanggelao Village, Guta Township, Yuyang District, Yulin Municipality, Shaanxi Province”, in…. From the entry Yuyang
• In the Panhandle Area, bison eat browse that includes mesquite and elm.2007, Texas Parks and Wildlife Service. From the entry browse
• Broad shading elms and sugar maples kept foothold there, spreading sun-traced shadows or holding twigfuls of snow.1947, Ethel McCrossin Orr, Evelyn T. Holston, Reading Today (book 1, page 52). From the entry twigful
• When a new Duchess is brought to Tankerton, the oldest elm in the park must be felled.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry tenantry
• The motor court was set back from the highway and shaded not by tamaracks but by huge stately elms.2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 116. From the entry tamarack
• Preferred host plants are elms (Ulmus spp.), hackberry (Celtis spp.), hops (Humulus spp.), nettle (Urtica spp.), and false nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica).1990, Wendy Potter-Springer, “List of Host Plants for Caterpillars”, in Heather Clemow, editor, Grow a Butterfly Garden (A Storey County…. From the entry question mark
• A sound like an elm tree full of katydids.1942, Stephen Longstreet, The Gay Sisters, Random House, page 81. From the entry gaylord
• I didn't know one could pollard elms.1910, Edward Morgan Forster, chapter 11, in Howards End. From the entry pollard
• The process began 50 years ago when Europe’s elms were ravaged by the beetle-borne fungal malady misnamed ʻDutch elm diseaseʼ (which, in fact, is Asian).2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 296. From the entry Dutch elm disease
• Simonds listed the plants brought in for this new area, mostly natives: elms, oaks, maples, ashes, lindens, cherries, hackberries, pepperidges, and hawthorns.2008, Cathy Jean Maloney, Chicago Gardens: The Early History, page 161. From the entry pepperidge
• Some of the best drought-tolerant trees are bur oak, Texas red oak, Texas ash, cedar elm, Eve's necklace, chinkapin oak, and Lacey oak.2003, Howard Garrett, Dear Dirt Doctor: Questions Answered the Natural Way, University of Texas Press, page 109. From the entry drought-tolerant
• As will be discussed below, habitat fragmentation is also a major issue in the conservation of marginal populations of the European white elm (U. laevis).2002, Eric Collin, “Strategies and guidelines for the conservation of the genetic resources of Ulmus spp.”, in Jozef Turok, G Eriksson, K.…. From the entry European white elm
• “Huliganï,” fumed Pnin, shaking his head—and slipped slightly on a flag of the path that meandered down a turfy slope among the leafless elms.1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 3.6, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 73. From the entry flag
• Let's ply the saw and speed her, and whack up elm and cedar, and thus, O gentle reader, our well-known bulwarks guard.1920, Hearst's International - Volume 38, page 48. From the entry whack up
• He found her walking slowly up and down an allee of elms, through the leaves of which the bright September sunshine sifted down.1903, Carter Goodloe, Calvert of Strathore. From the entry allee
• There was a news clipping there with a photo of a magnificent American elm, which had just been named the champion for its species, the largest of its kind.2013, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1st edition, Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 43–44. From the entry champion
• Among these are Prunus X-disease, pear decline, elm phloem necrosis, apple proliferation, the witches'—broom diseases of paulownia and jujube, and the greening and stubborn diseases of citrus.2012, Karl Maramorosch, Mycoplasma Diseases of Trees and Shrubs, page 35. From the entry X-disease
• He drove beneath a canopy of elms, then along a stretch of open shore, then past the municipal docks, where a woman in pedal pushers stood casting for bullheads.1987, Tim O’Brien, “Speaking of Courage”, in The Things They Carried […], Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, published…. From the entry pedal pushers
• Nothing but blackjacks for miles around it, but on that section, because of the water, I suppose, there were elms and persimmons and cottonwoods and even a grove of pecans.1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 23. From the entry blackjack

Meaning of elm

1. noun A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
2. noun Wood from an elm tree.

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How do you use elm in a sentence?

Elm is used as a noun. For example: “This elm tree rises to a height of seventy feet.”

What is a short sentence with elm?

“I didn't know one could pollard elms.”

What does elm mean?

Elm means a tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.