silky elm

Questions about silky elm

What does silky elm mean?

silky elm means "large tree of Australasia".

What is another word for silky elm?

Close synonyms include red beech, brown oak, booyong, crow's foot, stave wood. 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 silky elm a common word?

silky 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.