(n.) A tree of the genus Ulmus, of several species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in America. The English elm is Ulmus campestris; the common American or white elm is U. Americana; the slippery or red elm, U. fulva.
Thesaurus Entries
acacia, ailanthus, alder, alligator pear, allspice, almond, apple, apricot, ash, aspen, atramentous, avocado, balsa, balsam, banyan, bass, basswood, bay, bayberry, beamless, beech, beechwood, betel palm, birch, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, black race, blackness, buckeye, burl, butternut, buttonwood, cacao, caliginous, candleberry, cashew, cassia, catalpa, charcoal, cherry, chestnut, chinquapin, cinnamon, citron, clove, coal, coal-black, coaly, coconut, cork, cork oak, crow, cypress, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkling, darkness, darksome, deep black, dogwood, ebon, eclipsed, elder, elm, eucalyptus, fig, fir, frankincense, grapefruit, guava, gum, gumwood, hawthorn, hazel, hemlock, henna, hickory, holly, hop tree, horse chestnut, ink, ink-black, inkiness, inky, ironwood, jet, jetty, juniper, kumquat, laburnum, lancewood, larch, laurel, lemon, lime, linden, litchi, litchi nut, locust, logwood, magnolia, mahogany, mango, mangrove, maple, medlar, melanism, midnight, mountain ash, mulberry, night, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, nigrescence, nigritude, nigrous, nutmeg, oak, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occulted, olive, orange, palm, papaw, papaya, peach, pear, pecan, persimmon, pine, pistachio, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, plane, plum, pomegranate, poplar, quince, raffia palm, rain tree, raven, raven-black, rayless, redwood, sable, sandalwood, sassafras, senna, sequoia, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, smoke, smut, soot, spruce, starless, sumac, sunless, sycamore, tangerine, tar, tar-black, tarry, teak, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrous, tulip tree, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit, walnut, willow, witch hazel, yew
