NOUN
- large ornamental tree with graceful gradually spreading branches common in eastern North America
How To Use American elm In A Sentence
- Among the 68 trees to be cut are American elms, sycamores, tulip poplars, a couple of Yoshino cherries, a dogwood, and one cucumber magnolia.
- Thanks to those sharp-eyed readers who correctly ID'd the Mt. Vernon tree as an American elm.
- Walnut trees can also grow in small groups or as scattered specimens mixed with American elm, hackberry, boxelder, sugar maple, green and white ash, basswood, red oak, and hickory.
- Thanks to those sharp-eyed readers who correctly ID'd the Mt. Vernon tree as an American elm.
- The mucilage from the bark of this American elm has wonderfully strengthening and healing qualities.
- Since the American elm generally was regarded as the optimal urban tree, extensive stands were planted, something no city would do today.
- Rather it is a wide-ranging, cultural examination of the slow rise, rapid decline, and possible resurrection of the American elm in the American landscape.
- Breeding successes like camellias with better cold tolerance, American elms resistant to Dutch elm disease, and later flowering magnolias have given landscapers and gardeners important new choices.
- The park is known for its magnificent hardwood forest of sugar maple, American elm, basswood, and aspen.
- There is a haunting beauty to Esther Parada's ‘When the Bough Breaks,’ her potent multimedia requiem to the American elm, which has all but vanished from the urban landscape due to Dutch elm disease.