white mountain ash

1. 1.

   large tree with dark compact bark on lower trunk but smooth and white above; yields lumber similar to that of European or American ashes

   SynonymsEucalyptus fraxinoides

   Broadereucalyptus

Questions about white mountain ash

What does white mountain ash mean?

white mountain ash means "large tree with dark compact bark on lower trunk but smooth and white above; yields lumber similar to that of European or American ashes".

What is another word for white mountain ash?

Close synonyms include Eucalyptus fraxinoides. 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 mountain ash a common word?

white mountain ash 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.