Definition of Flowering ash

1. Noun. Southern Mediterranean ash having fragrant white flowers in dense panicles and yielding manna.

Exact synonyms: Fraxinus Ornus, Manna Ash
Generic synonyms: Ash, Ash Tree

2. Noun. Shrubby California ash with showy off-white flowers.
Exact synonyms: Fraxinus Dipetala
Generic synonyms: Ash, Ash Tree

3. Noun. Shrubby ash of southwestern United States having fragrant white flowers.
Exact synonyms: Fraxinus Cuspidata
Generic synonyms: Ash, Ash Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flowering Ash

flowerets
flowerette
flowerettes
flowerflies
flowerfly
flowerful
flowerhead
flowerheads
flowerier
floweriest
flowerily
floweriness
flowerinesses
flowering
flowering almond
flowering ash (current term)
flowering cherry
flowering crab
flowering fern
flowering glume
flowering hazel
flowering onion
flowering plants
flowering quince
flowering raspberry
flowering shrub
flowering spurge
flowering stone
flowering tobacco

Literary usage of Flowering ash

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flora Medica: Containing Coloured Delineations of the Various Medicinal by George Spratt (1829)
"Manna, or flowering ash.* Class POL YG AMI A.—Order ... THE MANNA, or flowering ash, was first introduced into England, about the year 1730, ..."

2. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1842)
"Except the last two they are only varieties, and in our opinion not worth keeping distinct. GENUS VII. O'RNUS Pert. THE flowering ash. Lin. Syst. ..."

3. On Planting and Rural Ornament: A Practical Treatise by William Marshal, Marshall (William) (1803)
"The flowering ash. Of this species there are two kinds or Varieties: The ... The Virginia flowering ash when jn blow is inferior in beauty to few of our ..."

4. The Vegetable World: Being a History of Plants, with Their Botanical by Louis Figuier (1867)
"The composite leaves of the flowering ash have from seven to nine sessile, ... The flowers of the Common Ash, contrary to those of the flowering ash, ..."

5. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"... is said to have enlarged nearly as much as the stock itself, a proof that the American flowering ash is a more robust-growing tree than the Ornus ..."

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