mountain ash
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A European tree, rowan or, more specifically, European rowan, of species Sorbus aucuparia.
British usage; Uncountable
noun
A tree native to southeastern Australia, Eucalyptus regnans, the tallest of all flowering plants.
Uncountable
name
A town in Mountain Ash East community and Mountain Ash West community, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0499). The communities have no councils.
name
An unincorporated community and coal town in Whitley County, Kentucky, United States.
Example Sentences
- "On the verdant slope and down by the edge of the water, the bird-cherry and the mountain ash displayed their flowery garb of summer."
- "Various measures were taken to avoid it, most popular being the suspension of certain herbs and tree branches over the doorways of dwellings and stables. Commonly used greenery were tansy, honesty, garlic, St. John's Wort, mountain ash, roadside verbena."
- "2007, Tyler Guthrie, Mountain Ash: Formally Rowan Tree, Trinity College, Academic Dissertation."
- "All three mountain-ashes are shrubs of climax and subclimax northern coniferous forest communities, along with speckled alder, Labrador tea, mountain and red maples, yellow birch, and bunchberry."
- "To the front left of the house, just up from the sidewalk, was a mountain ash tree. Before I was born, Gramma Moody, planted the mountain ash tree there."
- "In the hills of Appalachia, in a cove that no living man will ever find, is a Mountain Ash unlike any other in the world."
Usage
- British usage
- Uncountable