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mountain ash

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mountain ash

Flowering tree of the genus Sorbus, family Rosaceae. It has pinnate leaves and large clusters of whitish flowers, followed by scarlet berries. The American mountain ash S. americana grows to 30 ft/9 m and is native to the northeastern USA. The European mountain ash or rowan tree S. aucaparia is planted widely as an ornamental.

Mountain Ash

Town in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taff, south Wales, 6 km/4 mi southeast of Aberdare; population with Abercynon (1991) 21,300. It is in a highly industrialized area, with the industrial villages of Abercwmboi and Aberaman nearby.



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Once, in the stillness, the call of a bird in a mountain ash was so like her laughter that his heart tightened and then grew large; and all these things made him see that something must be done at once.
Ethan Frome by Wharton, Edith View in context
To the west was a great valley, and then, rising far away, great jagged mountain fastnesses, rising peak on peak, the sheer rock studded with mountain ash and thorn, whose roots clung in cracks and crevices and crannies of the stone.
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