elm

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 ĕlm

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers. countable
    — It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
  2. Wood from an elm tree. attributive,often,uncountable
    — English soldiers handled sturdy bows of yew, ash, or elm, which could propel an iron-tipped arrow as far as a hundred yards.

词形变化

elms plural ellum alternative,pronunciation-spelling

词汇关系

衍生词
American elm Atinian elm bastard elm Camperdown elm Caucasian elm cedar elm cherry bark elm chestnut-leafed elm Chinese elm common elm cork elm Cornish elm cutleaf elm Dutch elm disease Dutch elm elm bark beetle elm beetle elmen Elmhurst elm-leaf beetle elmlike elmness Elm Park elm sawfly Elmsdale elm tree elmwood elmy elm yellows English cork elm English elm European field elm European white elm field elm fluttering elm Great Elm Guernsey elm hickory elm Huntingdon elm Japanese elm Jersey elm lacebark elm lobed elm long raceme elm Manchurian elm Mexican elm moose elm multi-nerved elm Nine Elms northern elm purple elm red elm rock elm Russian elm Scotch elm Scots elm September elm Siberian elm slippery elm smaller European elm bark beetle soft elm Southampton elm southern elm Spanish elm spreading elm stately elm Texas cedar elm West Indian elm Wheatley elm white elm winged elm witch elm wych elm yoke elm
相关词
Burslem Elmbridge Elmhurst Limoges limousin limousine Newcastle-under-Lyme Nine Elms keyaki kiaki zelkova

词源

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”).
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