WHITE ASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white ash mean? 

• WHITE ASH (noun)
  The noun WHITE ASH has 2 senses:

1. small to medium-sized tree of Australia and Tasmania having smooth white to light-grey bark shedding in patches or strips

2. spreading American ash with leaves pale green or silvery beneath and having hard brownish wood

  Familiarity information: WHITE ASH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE ASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small to medium-sized tree of Australia and Tasmania having smooth white to light-grey bark shedding in patches or strips

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eucalyptus coriacea; Eucalyptus pauciflora; ghost gum; snow gum; white ash

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spreading American ash with leaves pale green or silvery beneath and having hard brownish wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Fraxinus Americana; white ash

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

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

 Context examples 

All the manuscript had been burned, and the blue flames were flickering amongst the white ashes; the cylinders of your phonograph too were thrown on the fire, and the wax had helped the flames.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)