Any of various deciduous trees of the genus Sorbus of the rose family, having pinnately compound leaves, clusters of small white flowers, and orange-red berries.
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A very tall eucalyptus tree (Eucalyptus regnans) valued as a source of timber and pulpwood.
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Any of a genus (Sorbus) of small trees or shrubs of the rose family, with compound leaves and clusters of white flowers and red or orange berries.
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(botany) Any of several trees in the genus Sorbus in North America.
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(UK) The European species Sorbus aucuparia, commonly known as rowan or more specifically European rowan.
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A tree native to southeastern Australia, Eucalyptus regnans, the tallest of all flowering plants.
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A Texan ash tree species, Fraxinus texensis.
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Other Word Forms
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Singular:
mountain-ash
Plural:
mountain-ashes
Mountain-ash Sentence Examples
Of the ketoses, we notice d-sorbose, found in the berries of mountain-ash, and d-tagatose, obtained by Lobry de Bruyn and van Ekenstein on treating galactose with dilute alkalis, talose and l-sorbose being formed at the same time.
At the beginning of the 19th century Mountain Ash was a small village known only by its Welsh name of Aberpenar, but from 1850, with the development of its collieries, the population rapidly increased.
The district has an area of 10,504 acres and comprises; besides Mountain Ash proper, a string of villages, the chief being Cwmpenar, Penrhiwceiber, Abercynon or Aberdare Junction (at the confluence of the Cynon with the Taff) and Ynysybwl, 3 m.
The public buildings include St Margaret's (1862) and St Winifred's (1883), the parish churches of Mountain Ash and Penrhiwceiber respectively; old and new town halls (1864 and 1904), cottage hospital (1896), and a library institute and public hall erected in 1899, at a cost of £8000, by the workmen of Nixon's Navigation collieries.