elm | meaning of elm in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Plantselmelm /elm/ noun [countable, uncountable]    HBPa type of large tree with broad leaves, or the wood from this treeExamples from the Corpuselm• Here were the hop fields, and elms and pines and cedars: the country of early settlement, rich and Europeanized.• Because, said Williams, both elms and oysters have saturated their living space already.• It is over there, by that giant elm.• The dark gray elms stood against the sky like exposed nerves.• The broomstick dipped and then dived towards a dark wood of tall elms and flew over the tops.• Thus elm trees clone themselves to form entire copses, and we cloned Dolly from cultured mammary gland cells.• The woods most used in construction were elm and ash, both very hard and durable.Origin elm Old English