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elm family - a dicot family of the order Urticales including: genera Ulmus, Celtis, Planera, Trema

dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

order Urticales, Urticales - an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae

genus Ulmus, Ulmus - type genus of family Ulmaceae; deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves; widely distributed in temperate regions

Celtis, genus Celtis - large genus of trees and shrubs with berrylike fruit

genus Planera, Planera - a deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United States

genus Trema, Trema - an evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia

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References in periodicals archive

Members of the elm family can be distinguished by their purple flowers in early spring.

Split personalitree; After 400 years, half of world's mightiest elm crashes down

Hackberry (hack*ber*ry) is in the Elm family and grows throughout the eastern United States and in southern Canada.

Hackberry fans make a case for an underrated species

Researchers in Australia reported this week the discovery of hemoglobin in the roots of a plant in the elm family. The finding represents the first time hemoglobin has been found in a plant lacking specially adapted "root nodules," and leads the researchers to suggest that hemoglobin genes might be present in all plants.

Hemoglobin may be common in plants

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