white ash

Questions about white ash

What does white ash mean?

white ash means "small to medium-sized tree of Australia and Tasmania having smooth white to light-grey bark shedding in patches or strips". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for white ash?

Close synonyms include snow gum, ghost gum, Eucalyptus coriacea, Eucalyptus pauciflora, Fraxinus Americana. 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 white ash a common word?

white 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.