mountain ash
Americannoun
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British, whitten. any of several small trees of the genus Sorbus, of the rose family, having flat-topped clusters of small, white flowers and bright-red to orange berries.
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any of certain other trees, as several Australian species of eucalyptus.
noun
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any of various trees of the rosaceous genus Sorbus, such as S aucuparia ( European mountain ash or rowan ), having clusters of small white flowers and bright red berries
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any of several Australian eucalyptus trees, such as Eucalyptus regnans
Etymology
Origin of mountain ash
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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These sites span a large rainfall gradient and vary enormously in their structure: from sparse and short arid woodlands in Western Australia to towering, 90-m tall mountain ash forests in Tasmania.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 24, 2024
But properties further into a dense forest of mountain ash trees were “undefendable”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2020
The bloom is followed by a wave of fruition: blueberries, orange umbels of mountain ash, elderberries, chokecherries, and pine nuts.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2019
Huckleberry bushes compete with mountain ash, which bears clusters of bright red berries.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 5, 2017
Between 11,000 and 13,000 feet you ascend through mixed woods of pine, larch, birch and juniper with an undergrowth of rhododendrons and mountain ash.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth
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