fraxinus americana

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   spreading American ash with leaves pale green or silvery beneath and having hard brownish wood

   Synonymswhite ash

   Broaderash

Questions about fraxinus americana

What does fraxinus americana mean?

fraxinus americana means "spreading American ash with leaves pale green or silvery beneath and having hard brownish wood".

What is another word for fraxinus americana?

Close synonyms include white ash. 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 fraxinus americana a common word?

fraxinus americana is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.