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red elm

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English

Syllables
red elm
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tree of species Ulmus rubra, native to eastern North America (from southeast North Dakota, east to Maine and southern Quebec, south to northernmost Florida, and west to eastern Texas).

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Calque of translingual Ulmus rubra.

Usage

Inflected Forms

red elms (plural)

Synonyms

slippery elm gray elm soft elm moose elm Indian elm ulmus rubra september elm ulmus serotina

Questions

What does red elm mean?
A tree of species Ulmus rubra, native to eastern North America (from southeast North Dakota, east to Maine and southern Quebec, south to northernmost Florida, and west to eastern Texas).
Where does red elm come from?
Calque of translingual Ulmus rubra.

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