elm family

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   a dicot family of the order Urticales including: genera Ulmus, Celtis, Planera, Trema

   SynonymsUlmaceaefamily Ulmaceae

   Broaderdicot family

   Part ofUrticales

Questions about elm family

What does elm family mean?

elm family means "a dicot family of the order Urticales including: genera Ulmus, Celtis, Planera, Trema".

What is another word for elm family?

Close synonyms include Ulmaceae, family Ulmaceae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elm family a common word?

elm family is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.