Definitions for elms

elms elm

Spelling: [elm]
IPA: /ɛlm/

Elms is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in elms (elms).

Definitions for elms

noun

  1. any tree of the genus Ulmus, as U. procera (English elm) characterized by the gradually spreading columnar manner of growth of its branches. Compare American elm, elm family.
  2. the wood of such a tree.

Origin of elms

before 1000; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Old High German elm; akin to Old Norse almr, Latin ulmus

Examples for elms

The elm, indeed, was the only object that ever did cast its shadow there.

This year, she starred as the protagonist Nancy Holbrook in the remake of the 1980s horror movie A Nightmare on elm Street.

As with most horror remakes, the new Nightmare on elm Street finds the tune but loses the rhythm.

She could hear the oriole singing in the elm; his song was almost articulate.

As I opened the door to my house, a scene from Nightmare on elm Street started to explode.

A nightingale was singing somewhere in the elm trees which bordered the garden.

The elm was very common in the island at the period under consideration.

Or it may be “llwyv,” an elm tree, in reference to the devastation of the groves just mentioned.

The elm was almost as beautiful in one season as in another.

All that side was brilliant green, the other side with the elm tree was dark.

Word Value for elms
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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