Search Result for "fraxinus americana":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. spreading American ash with leaves pale green or silvery beneath and having hard brownish wood;
[syn: white ash, Fraxinus Americana]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] Note: Fraxinus excelsior is the European ash; Fraxinus Americana, the white ash; Fraxinus sambucifolia, the black ash or water ash. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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). [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree. [1913 Webster] Note: Ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound term; as, ash bud, ash wood, ash tree, etc. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Fraxinus Americana n 1: spreading American ash with leaves pale green or silvery beneath and having hard brownish wood [syn: white ash, Fraxinus Americana]