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单词 red ash
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red ashn.1

Brit. /ˈrɛd aʃ/, U.S. /ˈrɛd ˌæʃ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., ash n.1
Etymology: < red adj. + ash n.1
1. Any of several North American ash trees (genus Fraxinus), esp. F. pennsylvanica.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > ash and allies > [noun]
ashc700
fraynec1325
wood-browna1400
wild ash1552
white ash1578
manna tree1665
black ash1673
white ash1683
water ash1709
manna ash1715
hoop-ash1763
red ash1773
shrew-ash1776
blue ash1783
swamp ash1794
weeping ash1807
green ash1810
cockscomb ash1850
Oregon ash1857
1773 W. Hanbury Compl. Body Planting & Gardening I. 125/2 The Red Ash. It has its seeds very broad, and is commonly called the Carolina Ash.
1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 314 The red ash is abundant in Penn. and the southern parts of N. England... Leaves of about 7 leaflets, which become reddish underneath.
1887 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1885–6 10 104 Red Ash. Tree middle-size or large; wood heavy, hard, strong and brittle.
1908 N. L. Britton N. Amer. Trees 805 It has been supposed that the so-called Red ash and Green ash could be told apart by the velvety twigs of the former and the smooth ones of the latter.
1942 W. M. Harlow Trees Eastern U.S. 269 Red Ash is a swamp or stream-bank tree whose bark is similar to that of white ash.
1994 A. Cleave Field Guide Trees Brit., Europe & N. Amer. 294/1 Red Ash. Fraxinus pennsylvanica... Similar to Common Ash but generally smaller, with a more deeply furrowed reddish-brown bark.
2. Any of several Australian trees, esp. Alphitonia excelsa (family Rhamnaceae) and Orites excelsa (family Proteaceae).
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > names applied to various Australasian species
pepper tree1773
apple tree1801
white boxc1830
Christmas tree1844
mapau1853
maple1858
leopard-wood1859
red ash1863
sycamore1866
New Zealand orange tree1898
five-finger1926
leopard-tree1927
maple1934
1863 Technologist 3 63 Alphitonia excelsa... (Red Ash, Cooper's Wood, or Leather Jacket, of New South Wales)—It is a fine tree, growing from 50 to 100 feet high.
1887 Colonial & Indian Exhib., London 1886: Rep. Colonial Sections 418 Orites excelsa, R.Br., commonly called Red Ash. Attains moderate dimensions; the wood is dark in colour.
1909 F. M. Bailey Comprehensive Catal. Queensland Plants 100 Alphitonia excelsa..Red Ash. The leaves, with water, rubbed on the hands by school-children to remove ink-stains.
1965 Austral. Encycl. I. 165/2 The red almond (also called red ash, white-leaf, leather-jacket and cooper's wood), is a smooth-barked tree.
2004 Newcastle (New S. Wales) Herald (Nexis) 29 Apr. (News section) 5 The native plants being reintroduced to the area, such as blue gums, red ash and bottle brush..help create habitats for native birds and mammals.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

red ashn.2

Brit. /ˈrɛd aʃ/, U.S. /ˈrɛd ˌæʃ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., ash n.2
Etymology: < red adj. + ash n.2
1. A deep reddish-grey colour. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun] > reddish grey
red ash1824
1824 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XII. i. 174 Edged with red..and tipped with a small border of red-ash.
1831 J. Pancoast tr. J. F. Lobstein Treat. Human Sympathetic Nerve i. iv. 60 The first cervical ganglion appeared to me to be the softest of all, most succulent, and of the deepest red-ash colour.
2. U.S. A variety of coal producing ash of a red colour when burned (more fully red ash coal); frequently attributive.
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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > coal > other types of coal
peacock coal1686
bone1817
paper coal1833
red ash1836
oil coal1856
rattlejack1877
fusain1883
black coal1887
clarain1919
vitrain1919
1836 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 246 Some of the coal ignites more readily than the rest; and..the red-ash coal is by many, regarded as of superior quality.
1857 T. B. Gunn Physiol. N.Y. Boarding Houses 60 Her coal merchant demurs about bringing a ton of Red Ash or Peach Orchard—until paid.
1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 507 To make this..land available for the production of coal, the upper or red-ash veins having been worked out.
1907 St. Nicholas May 669/1 The coal is the red ash, burns very freely and gives plenty of heat.
1961 Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio) 3 Dec. d7/5 (advt.) Red Ash Coal.
1990 G. Palladino Another Civil War ii. 28 As long as red ash coal..remained available, this excessive production proved profitable; but by 1850 all but one red-ash region in Schuylkill County had been exhausted.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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