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Alternative spellings
Zelkova
<!-- "zelcova" is also frequently seen, "zelkoua" occasionally -->
Etymology
Borrowed 1893 from NL. (genus name) from Russ. дзелÑква (dzelâkva) from a Caucasian language, possibly Geor. á«ááá¥áá (dzelkva), possibly from á«ááá á¥áá (dzeli kva), âcorbel, beam stoneâ, from á«ááá (dzeli), âbeamâ + á¥áá (kva), âstoneâ.<!-- neither OED nor Kenkusha narrow it down further than Cauc. -->
Noun
en-noun
- A kind of tree in the elm family (genus Zelkova).
Quotations
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Synonyms
Caucasian elm
Japanese elm<!-- seems to also refer to Ulmus japonica -->
keaki<!-- Illus. Encyc. of Trees, 1978-->, keyaki, kiaki<!-- both OED supplement -->
Derived terms
Caucasian zelkova
Chinese zelkova
Cretan zelkova
cut-leafed zelkova
Japanese zelkova
saw-leaf zelkova
Schneider's Zelkova
Translations
trans-top|kind of tree in the elm family
CJKV Characters: 槻<!-- ja tsuki, looks like simp. of foll. -->; æ¬<!-- ja tsuki, looks like trad. of prev. -->; æ¬
<!-- ja keyaki, looks like var of chin. -->; 櫸<!-- chin. trad. -->, æ¦<!-- chin. simp. -->
Czech: t-|cs|zelkova, t-|cs|zelkova habrolistá
Danish: t-|da|zelkova g|Danish
Dutch: t-|nl|zelkova|m
Esperanto: zelkovo
Estonian: t-|et|tselkva
French: orme de Sibérie m, planere f, zelcova m
Georgian: á«ááá¥áá (dzelkva)
trans-mid
German: Zelkove, Zelkowe, Zelkoua, Zelkowa<!-- not sure which are considered correct but all are found -->
Italian: t+|it|olmo siberiano|m, t|it|zelcova|f
Japanese: ã±ã¤ã (æ¬
, keyaki)
Korean: ëí°ë무 (neuti-namu)
Portuguese: olmo cinzento m, zelkova f
Russian: дзелÑква (dzélâkva) f
Spanish: olmo chino m, zelkova f
Vietnamese: chi cá»
trans-bottom
See also
elm
Latin
Etymology
Applied in 1841 by Spach in Annales des sciences naturelles â botanique, from Russ.|la.
Noun
zelkova
- nomen conservandum for a genus of plants in the family Ulmaceae.
Synonyms
Abelicea Baillon 1875
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