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Mountain ash

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town in Mountain Ash East community and Mountain Ash West community, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0499). The communities have no councils.
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community and coal town in Whitley County, Kentucky, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A European tree, rowan or, more specifically, European rowan, of species Sorbus aucuparia. British, uncountable, usually

    "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."

  2. 2
    low-growing ash of Texas wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of several trees in the genus Sorbus in North America. uncountable, usually

    "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."

  4. 4
    tree having wood similar to the alpine ash; tallest tree in Australia and tallest hardwood in the world wordnet
  5. 5
    A tree native to southeastern Australia, Eucalyptus regnans, the tallest of all flowering plants. uncountable, usually

    "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."

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  1. 6
    any of various trees of the genus Sorbus wordnet
  2. 7
    A Texan ash tree of species Fraxinus texensis. uncountable, usually

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