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Definition of Flowering ash
1. Noun. Southern Mediterranean ash having fragrant white flowers in dense panicles and yielding manna.
2. Noun. Shrubby California ash with showy off-white flowers.
3. Noun. Shrubby ash of southwestern United States having fragrant white flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flowering Ash
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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