RED ASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red ash mean? 

• RED ASH (noun)
  The noun RED ASH has 1 sense:

1. smallish American tree with velvety branchlets and lower leaf surfaces

  Familiarity information: RED ASH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED ASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Smallish American tree with velvety branchlets and lower leaf surfaces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

downy ash; Fraxinus pennsylvanica; red ash

Hypernyms ("red ash" is a kind of...):

ash; ash tree (any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "red ash"):

Fraxinus pennsylvanica subintegerrima; green ash (a variety of red ash having glossy branchlets and lower leaf surfaces)

 Context examples 

Still, as the shadows deepened, she spoke of valor and virtue, of loyalty, honor, and fame, and still they sat drinking in her words while the fire burned down and the red ash turned to gray.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)