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mountain ash
1. The tree Pyrus (formerly Sorbus) Aucuparia, characterized by its delicate pinnate leaves and masses of bright scarlet berries. In North America applied to the native species, Pyrus americana and P. sambucifolia. Also bastard mountain ash: see quot. 1812.
1597Gerarde Herbal iii. civ. 1290 The..Ornus which also is named ὀρεινὴ µελία, or Montana Fraxinus, mountaine Ash. 1697Dryden æneid x. 1087 Like a mountain ash [L. ornum], whose roots are spread, Deep fix'd in earth. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 36 Besides those Myrtle Trees, there are the Mountain-Ash..the Pepper Tree [etc.]. 1812Sowerby's Eng. Bot. XXXIII. 2331 Pyrus pinnatifida. Bastard Mountain Ash. 1845–50A. H. Lincoln Lect. Bot. App. 172 Sorbus americana (mountain ash..). 1875Encycl. Brit. II. 680/2 Pear trees are sometimes grafted on the mountain ash.
2. a. dial.; b. Austral. (see quots. 1884–1957).
1871Scott. Naturalist I. 54 In Inverness-shire, the Aspen (Populus tremula) is known as the Mountain, or Quaking, Ash. 1884A. Nilson Timber Trees New South Wales 74 E[ucalyptus] virgata.—Mountain ash; White-top.—A tree of considerable size. Ibid., E. micrococca.—Mountain Ash... Habitat, brush forests, from Illawarra to the Richmond River and New England; also Blue Mountains. 1898Morris Austral Eng. 304/1 Mountain-Ash, a name applied to various Eucalypts, and to the tree Alphitonia excelsa, Reiss. 1934[see blackbutt]. 1957N.Z. Timber Jrnl. Dec. 59/1 Mountain ash. Eucalyptus regnans F. Muell. and E. delegatensis R.T.B... Victoria and Tasmania. Also called Tasmanian oak and Australian oak. Moderately hard, heavy, durable, strong, elastic and resilient. |