flowering ash

Questions about flowering ash

What does flowering ash mean?

flowering ash means "southern Mediterranean ash having fragrant white flowers in dense panicles and yielding manna". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for flowering ash?

Close synonyms include manna ash, Fraxinus ornus, Fraxinus dipetala, Fraxinus cuspidata. 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 flowering ash a common word?

flowering 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.