blue ash

1. 1.

   ash of central and southern United States with bluish-green foliage and hard brown wood

   SynonymsFraxinus quadrangulata

   Broaderash

Questions about blue ash

What does blue ash mean?

blue ash means "ash of central and southern United States with bluish-green foliage and hard brown wood".

What is another word for blue ash?

Close synonyms include Fraxinus quadrangulata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blue ash a common word?

blue ash is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.