Definition of Jersey elm

1. Noun. A variety of the English elm with erect branches and broader leaves.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Jersey Elm

Jerom Bos
Jerome
Jerome David Kern
Jerome David Salinger
Jerome Kern
Jerome Robbins
Jeronymite
Jeronymites
Jerri
Jerrold
Jerry
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jersey
Jersey City
Jersey Legal French
Jersey elm (current term)
Jersey fern
Jersey girl
Jersey girls
Jersey knapweed
Jersey lightning
Jersey pine
Jerseyman
Jerseymen
Jerusalem
Jerusalem Warriors
Jerusalem artichoke
Jerusalem artichoke sunflower
Jerusalem artichokes
Jerusalem cherry

Literary usage of Jersey elm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"Cat., 1836; the Jersey elm; is a free-growing variety, difl'ering very little from the species. There are trees of this kind 20 ft. high in the ..."

2. London Trees: Being an Account of the Trees that Succeed in London, with a by Angus Duncan Webster (1920)
"... implements Elm wood is largely employed, while for the cheaper class of coffins it is extensively in use. Guernsey or Jersey elm (U. stricta ..."

3. Forests, Woods and Trees in Relation to Hygiene by Augustine Henry (1852)
"Farmer could recommend to the Kensington Town Council only four trees, namely, plane, Ailanthus, Jersey elm, and Lombardy poplar, though he suggested the ..."

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