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Ash is the name given to a few northern European trees and shrubs of the Fraxinus genus. They belong to the same family as the olive, lilac, and jasmine. Ashes generally have a compound leaf with leaflets arranged on either side of a stem and a winged fruit.

Any tree of a worldwide group belonging to the olive family, with winged fruits. The mountain ash or rowan, which resembles the ash, belongs to the family Rosaceae. (Genus Fraxinus, family Oleaceae.)



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If we had not given up the rights of the ash, we might yet have retained our own privileges and have stood for ages.
Fables by Aesop View in context
There is a remnant still of last year's golden clusters of beehive-ricks rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows; and everywhere the hedgerows are studded with trees; the distant ships seem to be lifting their masts and stretching their red-brown sails close among the branches of the spreading ash.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
A place where few people care to go about alone, where a maid screams if an ash drops from the fire, takes to crying at all times and seasons, becomes the victim of a low disorder of the spirits, and gives warning and departs.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
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