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A village and civil parish in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF4706).
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An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Missouri, United States.
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An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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A village in Glarus canton, Switzerland.
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A surname.
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A functional programming language for creating web applications.
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Topics: computer-languages, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Synonyms: elven
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Wood from an elm tree.
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Usage: attributive, often, uncountable
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any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees
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Synonyms: elm tree
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Broader terms: tree
Narrower terms: winged elm, wing elm, Ulmus alata, American elm, white elm, water elm, rock elm, Ulmus americana, smooth-leaved elm, European field elm, Ulmus carpinifolia, cedar elm, Ulmus crassifolia, witch elm, wych elm, Ulmus glabra, Dutch elm, Ulmus hollandica, Huntingdon elm, Ulmus hollandica vegetata, Ulmus laevis, Chinese elm, Ulmus parvifolia, English elm, European elm, Ulmus procera, Siberian elm, dwarf elm, Ulmus pumila, slippery elm, red elm, Ulmus rubra, Jersey elm, guernsey elm, wheately elm, Ulmus sarniensis, Ulmus campestris sarniensis, Ulmus campestris wheatleyi, September elm, Ulmus serotina, Ulmus thomasii
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hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture
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Synonyms: elmwood
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Broader terms: wood
History
From Middle English elme, elm, from Old English elm, from Proto-West Germanic *elm, from Proto-Germanic *elmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h1élem (“mountain elm”). See also dialectal Low German Elm, dialectal German Ilm, archaic German Ilme, Norwegian and Swedish alm; also Irish leamh, Latin ulmus, Albanian ulzë (“maple”).
Across languages
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