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
The familiar workhorses of the birds’ berry buffet, like Pyracantha and holly, mountain ash and Nandina, are all pretty enough.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2022
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
Even in winter there was ivy to be had, and red-berried holly, and the coral clusters of the mountain ash, and pale chrysanthemums.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
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