Definition of Genus Fraxinus

1. Noun. Ash.

Exact synonyms: Fraxinus
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Oleaceae, Oleaceae, Olive Family
Member holonyms: Ash, Ash Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Fraxinus

genus Forestiera
genus Forficula
genus Formica
genus Formicarius
genus Forsythia
genus Fortunella
genus Fossa
genus Fothergilla
genus Fouquieria
genus Fragaria
genus Francisella
genus Francoa
genus Frankliniella
genus Frasera
genus Fratercula
genus Fraxinus (current term)
genus Freesia
genus Fregata
genus Fremontia
genus Fremontodendron
genus Fringilla
genus Fritillaria
genus Froelichia
genus Fuchsia
genus Fucus
genus Fulica
genus Fulmarus
genus Fumaria
genus Fundulus
genus Fungia

Literary usage of Genus Fraxinus

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

1. Native Trees of Kentucky: A Handbook by Sarah Webb Maury (1910)
"Two genera represent this family in Kentucky: A. genus Fraxinus—Ash. B. ... A. ASH—genus Fraxinus. Three characteristics readily identify these trees: 1. ..."

2. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"The mountain ash, conspicuous for its clusters of red berries, is a species of Pyrus, having no affinity with the genus Fraxinus. ..."

3. Botany for Young People and Common Schools: How Plants Grow, a Simple by Asa Gray (1880)
"Thus, the scientific name of the Oak genus is Quercus ; of the Ash genus, Fraxinus ; of the Rose genus, Rosa; of the Pear genus, Pyrus; of the Bramble or ..."

4. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"I HE genus Fraxinus consists of deciduous trees, with opposite, impari-pinnate, rarely simple leaves, and lateral racemes of greenish-yellow flowers ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"Map showing the distribution of the genus Fraxinus (the Ashes). No. 4. Map showing the distribution of the Genera Carya and Umbellularia. No. 5. ..."

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