ulmen.
Obsolete or dialect.
An elm-tree. (Cf. ulm-tree n.) The forms olm, holm, ulm, are recorded as surviving in northern English and southern Scottish dialects in the latter part of the 19th cent.
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white elm1580
wych elm1582
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weeping elm1606
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smooth-leaved elm1731
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water elm1733
slippery elm1748
Scotch elm1769
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red elm1805
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moose elm1810
cork-elm1813
rock elm1817
swamp elm1817
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Jersey elm1838
winged elm1858
sand elm1878
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1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Dvj Our cittizen Is now a Corridon. He trimmes his vlmes.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 295 A Catalogue of Plants growing at Spahaun... Sycamore. Ivy... Poplar. Ulmes. Willows.
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