silky elm

Questions about silky elm

What is another word for silky elm?

It depends which silky elm you mean. In the sense “large tree of Australasia”, the synonyms are red beech, brown oak, booyong, crow's foot, stave wood, Heritiera trifoliolata, Terrietia trifoliolata. Across all 1 sense there are 7 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of silky elm?

WordNet records no antonym for silky elm. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for silky elm come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of silky elm

• Full entry for silky elmAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for silky elmWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.