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ASH TREE

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Meaning:

Any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus

Synonyms:

ash; ash tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("ash tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (parts of "ash tree"):

ash-key (winged seed of the ash tree)

Meronyms (substance of "ash tree"):

ash (strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ash tree"):

Fraxinus Americana; white ash (spreading American ash with leaves pale green or silvery beneath and having hard brownish wood)

Fraxinus caroliniana; swamp ash (small ash of swampy areas of southeastern United States)

flowering ash; Fraxinus cuspidata (shrubby ash of southwestern United States having fragrant white flowers)

flowering ash; Fraxinus dipetala (shrubby California ash with showy off-white flowers)

common European ash; European ash; Fraxinus excelsior (tall ash of Europe to the Caucasus having leaves shiny dark-green above and pale downy beneath)

Fraxinus latifolia; Fraxinus oregona; Oregon ash (timber tree of western North America yielding hard light wood; closely related to the red ash)

basket ash; black ash; brown ash; Fraxinus nigra; hoop ash (vigorous spreading North American tree having dark brown heavy wood; leaves turn gold in autumn)

flowering ash; Fraxinus ornus; manna ash (southern Mediterranean ash having fragrant white flowers in dense panicles and yielding manna)

downy ash; Fraxinus pennsylvanica; red ash (smallish American tree with velvety branchlets and lower leaf surfaces)

blue ash; Fraxinus quadrangulata (ash of central and southern United States with bluish-green foliage and hard brown wood)

Fraxinus texensis; mountain ash (low-growing ash of Texas)

Fraxinus tomentosa; pumpkin ash (timber tree of central and southeastern United States having hairy branchlets and a swollen trunk base)

Arizona ash; Fraxinus velutina (small shrubby ash of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico)

Instance hyponyms:

Ygdrasil; Yggdrasil ((Norse mythology) a huge ash tree whose roots and branches hold the earth and Heaven and Hell together)

Holonyms ("ash tree" is a member of...):

Fraxinus; genus Fraxinus (ash)

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