Found 2 items, similar to Fraxinus Americana.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Fraxinus Americana
Fraxinus Americana
n : spreading American ash with leaves pale green or silvery
beneath and having hard brownish wood [syn:
white ash]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Fraxinus Americana
Fraxinus
\Frax"i*nus\, prop. n. [L., the ash tree.] (Bot.)
A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north
temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.
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Note:
Fraxinus excelsior is the European ash;
Fraxinus Americana
, the white ash;
Fraxinus sambucifolia, the
black ash or water ash.
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Ash
\Ash\ ([a^]sh), n. [OE. asch, esh, AS. [ae]sc; akin to OHG.
asc, Sw. & Dan. ask, Icel. askr, D. esch, G. esche.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of trees of the Olive family, having
opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing
valuable timber, as the European ash (
Fraxinus excelsior
) and the white ash (
Fraxinus Americana).
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Prickly ash (
Zanthoxylum Americanum) and
Poison ash
(
Rhus venenata) are shrubs of different families,
somewhat resembling the true ashes in their foliage.
Mountain ash. See
Roman tree, and under
Mountain.
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2. The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.
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Note: Ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a
compound term; as, ash bud, ash wood, ash tree, etc.
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