Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Ulmus pedunculata of central Europe. See Ulmus.
  • noun The planer-tree, Planera aquatica. See planer-tree.
  • noun The common white elm, Ulmus Americana.

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Examples

  • Associated with river swamp forests are button bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), water ash (Fraxinus caroliniana), water-elm (Planera aquatica), and black willow (Salix nigra).

    Mississippi lowland forests 2007

  • The distance was undulating prairie, bisected by stretches of the intermittent streams peculiar to the region lined with the rich green of live-oak and water-elm.

    Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886

  • Pearson's laugh woke an owl one hour too early in his water-elm on the river bank, half a mile away.

    Waifs and Strays Part 1 O. Henry 1886

  • He remembered calling out: "Let up, now -- no fair gouging!" and then he crawled from under the lion like a worm, with his mouth full of grass and dirt, and a big lump on the back of his head where it had struck the root of a water-elm.

    Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

  • So sure was she of his immediate proximity that she perched herself to idle for a time in the curve of a great creeper that looped down from a giant water-elm.

    Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

  • a young tarantula in his bill, and the other eye noticed a rabbit-hawk sitting on a dead limb in a water-elm.

    Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

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