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Dutch elm

NOUN
  1. any of various hybrid ornamental European shade trees ranging from dwarf to tall

How To Use Dutch elm In A Sentence

  • North American deciduous tree (Ulmus americana) having double serrate leaves and winged fruits. It is grown chiefly as an ornamental shade tree but often dies from Dutch elm disease.
  • We have lost too many champions to Dutch elm disease, chestnut blight, and oak wilt.
  • The output was adjusted to the same pitch as the tree's screams and I threatened him with everything from falling branches to Dutch elm disease.
  • Elm used to be the archetypal English wood until Dutch Elm disease took its toll in the 1970s.
  • Holmes crossed two compatible races of ceratocystis ulmi, the causal agent of Dutch elm disease.
  • Thanks to a splice from the Chinese chestnut it will no longer be susceptible to Dutch elm and will no longer be stunted. Seven answers from ...
  • A North American deciduous tree (Ulmus americana) having double serrate leaves and winged fruits. It is grown chiefly as an ornamental shade tree but often dies from Dutch elm disease.
  • 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.
  • Then one year, agricultural catastrophe struck Michigan in the form of Dutch Elm Disease.
  • The main threats now are the continuing effects of Dutch elm disease, clearance of mature trees and pollution from the spray drift of agrochemicals.
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