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Definition of Genus Fraxinus
1. Noun. Ash.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Oleaceae, Oleaceae, Olive Family
Member holonyms: Ash, Ash Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Fraxinus
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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