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mountain ash en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (UK, uncountable, usually) A European tree, rowan or, more specifically, European rowan, of species Sorbus aucuparia.
   • Various measures were taken to avoid it, most popular being the suspension of certain herbs and tree branches over the doorways of dwellings and stables. Commonly used greenery were tansy, honesty, garlic, St. John's Wort, mountain ash, roadside verbena. 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 271:
   • 2007, Tyler Guthrie, Mountain Ash: Formally Rowan Tree, Trinity College, Academic Dissertation.
   • On the verdant slope and down by the edge of the water, the bird-cherry and the mountain ash displayed their flowery garb of summer. 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280:
2. (uncountable, usually) Any of several trees in the genus Sorbus in North America.
   • To the front left of the house, just up from the sidewalk, was a mountain ash tree. Before I was born, Gramma Moody, planted the mountain ash tree there. 2008, Elna Fone Nugent, Mountain Ash: A New England Memoir, page 30:
   • In the hills of Appalachia, in a cove that no living man will ever find, is a Mountain Ash unlike any other in the world. 2011, Ruth Sims, The Legend of the Mountain Ash, unnumbered page:
   • All three mountain-ashes are shrubs of climax and subclimax northern coniferous forest communities, along with speckled alder, Labrador tea, mountain and red maples, yellow birch, and bunchberry. 1974, William M. Healy, Shrubs and Vines for Northeastern Wildlife, numbers 6-10, page 99:
3. (uncountable, usually) A tree native to southeastern Australia, Eucalyptus regnans, the tallest of all flowering plants.
   • McCarthy and Lindenmayer (1998) developed a model of the development of multi-aged Mountain Ash forest in response to fire. The model predicted the prevalence of multi-aged Mountain Ash forest as a function of the mean fire interval. 2002, Brendan Mackey, David Lindenmayer, Malcolm Gill, Michael McCarthy, Janette Lindesay, editors, Wildlife, Fire and Future Climate: A Forest Ecosystem Analysis, page 42:
4. (uncountable, usually) A Texan ash tree of species Fraxinus texensis.

Forms

Deriveds

American mountain ash

Synonyms

Texas ash (Fraxinus texensis) · European rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) · quicken (Sorbus aucuparia) · swamp gum (Eucalyptus regnans) · stringy gum (Eucalyptus regnans) · rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) · Tasmanian oak (Eucalyptus regnans) · Victorian ash (Eucalyptus regnans)

Translations (9)

nl lijsterbes (tree in the genus Sorbus) · fi kuningaseukalyptus (Eucalyptus regnans) · tfn shishgguna (tree in the genus Sorbus) · pl jesion teksański (Fraxinus texensis) · pl jarząb (tree in the genus Sorbus) · la sorbus (tree in the genus Sorbus) · fi pihlaja (tree in the genus Sorbus) · pl eukaliptus królewski (Eucalyptus regnans) · bg офика (tree in the genus Sorbus)