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soft elm

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English

Syllables
soft- elm
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of species Ulmus rubra of elm trees, 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

Usage

Inflected Forms

soft elms (plural)

Synonyms

slippery elm gray elm red elm moose elm Indian elm

Questions

What does soft elm mean?
Any of species Ulmus rubra of elm trees, native to eastern North America (from southeast North Dakota, east to Maine and southern Quebec, south to northernmost Florida, and west to eastern Texas).

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