MOUNTAIN ASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mountain ash mean? 

• MOUNTAIN ASH (noun)
  The noun MOUNTAIN ASH has 3 senses:

1. any of various trees of the genus Sorbus

2. tree having wood similar to the alpine ash; tallest tree in Australia and tallest hardwood in the world

3. low-growing ash of Texas

  Familiarity information: MOUNTAIN ASH used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOUNTAIN ASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various trees of the genus Sorbus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

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

European mountain ash; rowan; rowan tree; Sorbus aucuparia (Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits)

American mountain ash; Sorbus americana (a variety of mountain ash)

Sorbus sitchensis; Western mountain ash (an ash of the western coast of North America)

service tree; sorb apple; sorb apple tree; Sorbus domestica (medium-sized European tree resembling the rowan but bearing edible fruit)

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

genus Sorbus; Sorbus (a genus of shrubs or trees of the family Rosaceae having feathery leaves)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tree having wood similar to the alpine ash; tallest tree in Australia and tallest hardwood in the world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eucalyptus regnans; mountain ash

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

eucalypt; eucalyptus; eucalyptus tree (a tree of the genus Eucalyptus)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Low-growing ash of Texas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Fraxinus texensis; mountain ash

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

ash; ash tree (any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus)

 Context examples 

What meant the giving of the crucifix, of the garlic, of the wild rose, of the mountain ash?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

To the west was a great valley, and then, rising far away, great jagged mountain fastnesses, rising peak on peak, the sheer rock studded with mountain ash and thorn, whose roots clung in cracks and crevices and crannies of the stone.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)