I. -kəvə noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Georgian tselkva
: a small genus of shrubs and trees (family Ulmaceae) occurring in temperate regions of the Old World and having simple leaves, small apetalous polygamous flowers, and small oblique drupes
II. noun
( -s )
: a plant of the genus Zelkova ; especially : a tall widely spreading Japanese tree ( Z. serrata ) resembling the American elm and replacing the latter as an ornamental and shade tree because of its resistance to Dutch elm disease