noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Dutch elm disease
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
disease
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Then came elm disease , followed by smartly by the drought of 1976, which killed off many of the beeches.
tree
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Thus elm trees clone themselves to form entire copses, and we cloned Dolly from cultured mammary gland cells.
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The sidewalks are littered with trash, the elm trees are gone.
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The corpse of the household servant still swung from the branch of an elm tree .
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They have lush stands of elm trees and will require minimal leveling.
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The grass was scythed, the elm trees well-pruned and vigorous in their growth.
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One of my great-est joys was to climb as high as I could in our old backyard elm tree .
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Six of the engineers had swum to the northern bank where they were fastening a rope to a great elm tree .
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Those corpses, the ones he had buried in their makeshift grave under the old elm tree who were they?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because, said Williams, both elms and oysters have saturated their living space already.
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Here were the hop fields, and elms and pines and cedars: the country of early settlement, rich and Europeanized.
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It is over there, by that giant elm .
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The broomstick dipped and then dived towards a dark wood of tall elms and flew over the tops.
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The dark gray elms stood against the sky like exposed nerves.
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The woods most used in construction were elm and ash, both very hard and durable.
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Thus elm trees clone themselves to form entire copses, and we cloned Dolly from cultured mammary gland cells.
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Today, half or more of our Arnerican elms have been killed.