An ash tree is a tall tree with feathery leaves and black buds. A great ash tree, the ash tree in the hedge, fell the ash tree.
The black winter buds are the easiest identification of any British tree. Ash dieback, a fungal disease that arrived in 2012, is expected to kill the great majority of them, which will change the look of the countryside.
1nounash treeA tall tree with feathery leaves and black buds.
“We sat in the shade of an old ash tree at the edge of the field.”
ash tree is a tree.
Old English aesc names the tree, from a Germanic root shared across northern Europe.
See ash, etymology 2.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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