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Ash tree

noun

Any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus. Synonym: ash.

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... The ash tree is slowly disappearing from many places, and owners of hedgerow and copse would do well to plant ash, which affords a most useful wood. Ash poles are plentiful, but ash timber gets scarcer year by year; for as the present trees are felled there are no young ones rising up to take their place. ...

— Round About a Great Estate • Richard Jefferies

... had grown and greatly increased in size, although there had not been any leaf growth. That roots under certain circumstances do so is well known. The roots of fir trees have been found alive and growing forty five years after the trunks were felled. The same has occurred in an ash tree after its trunk had been sawn off level with the ground. A root of Ipomea sellowii has been known to keep on growing for twelve years after its top had been destroyed by frost; and in all that time it never made buds or leaves, yet it increased to seven times its original weight. ...

— Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 • Various

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