Meaning of elmtree | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

Examples

“The elmtree of old felt lonely and cold / When wintry winds blew high, / And, looking below, he saw⟳ in the snow⟳ / The ivy wandering nigh, / And he said, Come⟳ twine with those tendrils of thine / My scathed and frozen form⟳, / For heart and hand together we’ll stand⟳ / And mock at the baffled storm, / Ha, ha! Together.”

“Of all the roads that bridges bear⟳ / O’er waters shining in the heat, / Or bowneck’d steeds in summer wear⟳ / To flying dust with brightshod feet, / The dearest winds through Ryals glades, / Where, o’er the knaps in elmtree shades, / The airblown primrose blooms and fades, / And Ruth comes out a-riding.”

“As a result⟳ of the storing ability of many animals, important amounts of insecticides can move⟳ unchanged through a food chain in a community and thus cause heavy mortalities in animals other than those at which the original application of insecticide was aimed, (cf. Rudd): e.g. DDT spraying on elmtrees to control⟳ the Dutch elmtree-disease vector (a beetle) → DDT on leaves in trees→DDT in leaf litter→DDT in soil→DDT in earthworms→high mortality in worm-eating thrushes (American robins).”

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