Characterized by the presence of elm trees; abounding in or resembling elm.
From elm plus -y (a suffix creating adjectives meaning 'characterized by' or 'full of'). This descriptive adjective appears frequently in English landscape poetry.
When poets described the English countryside as 'elmy,' they were painting a visual picture—elm-lined lanes and elm-filled valleys were so common they became the default image of rural beauty.
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