Ulmaceous

[ʌl'meiʃәs]

Definition

(a.) Of or pertaining to a suborder of urticaceous plants, of which the elm is the type.

Typed by Floyd

Definition

adj. relating to an order of trees of which the elm is the type.—adjs. Ul′mic Ul′mous pertaining to ulmin.—ns. Ul′min a dark-brown gummy substance exuded from excrescences in the elm oak &c. and present in peat vegetable mould &c.; Ul′mus the genus of the elms.

Edited by Horace