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American elm   /əmˈɛrəkən ɛlm/   Listen
American elm

noun
1.
Large ornamental tree with graceful gradually spreading branches common in eastern North America.  Synonyms: rock elm, Ulmus americana, water elm, white elm.






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"American elm" Quotes from Famous Books



... replied his governess. "And now I wish you all to examine the trees very thoroughly and tell me afterward what you have noticed about them; then we will go down to the schoolroom and see what the books will tell us in our talk about the American elm and ...
— Among the Trees at Elmridge • Ella Rodman Church

... sketched, and written up for the press, than any other tree in America. It is of goodly proportions, but, as far as girth of trunk and spread of branches constitute the claim upon our respect, there are many nobler specimens of the American elm in ...
— Bay State Monthly, Volume I, No. 2, February, 1884 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various



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