slippery elm

1. 1.

   North American elm having rough leaves that are red when opening; yields a hard wood

   Synonymsred elmUlmus rubra

   Broaderelm

   Part ofUlmus

Questions about slippery elm

What does slippery elm mean?

slippery elm means "North American elm having rough leaves that are red when opening; yields a hard wood".

What is another word for slippery elm?

Close synonyms include red 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 slippery elm a common word?

slippery elm 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.