red elm

Questions about red elm

What does red elm mean?

red elm means "autumn-flowering elm of southeastern United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for red elm?

Close synonyms include September elm, Ulmus serotina, slippery elm, Ulmus rubra. 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 red elm a common word?

red elm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.