slippery elm

English

Noun

slippery elm (plural slippery elms)

  1. Ulmus rubra, a North American elm tree with a mucilaginous and slightly aromatic inner bark.
    Synonyms: red elm, gray elm, soft elm, moose elm, Indian elm
    • 2022 October 2, Cara Schacter, “My Year of Stress and Constipation”, in The New York Times‎:
      Mid-March 2021, at a bowling alley, I watch balls thunder down lanes and wonder if I’ve had a bowel movement since Presidents’ Day. I try: Miralax, Restoralax, magnesium citrate (liquid and powder), […] licorice root, slippery elm, beans, […] .
  2. A malvaceous shrub (Fremontia californica, now Fremontodendron californicum); so called on the Pacific coast.
    Synonyms: California flannelbush, California fremontia, flannel flower

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for slippery elm under slippery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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