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black ash

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Noun1.black ashblack ash - vigorous spreading North American tree having dark brown heavy wood; leaves turn gold in autumn
basket ash, brown ash, Fraxinus nigra, hoop ash
ash tree, ash - any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus


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To the trained eye there is as much difference between the black ash of a Trichinopoly and the white fluff of bird's-eye as there is between a cabbage and a potato.
Sign of the Four by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
I have watered the red huckleberry, the sand cherry and the nettle-tree, the red pine and the black ash, the white grape and the yellow violet, which might have withered else in dry seasons.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
Now, notice here, the marks of two large footprints and the black ash they left where they have been.
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