Definition of "ailantus" [ailantus]

• Any member of the tree genus Ailanthus. (noun)

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• "Mrs. Penniman, who was fond of a change, was usually eager for a visit to the country; but this year she appeared quite content with such rural impressions as she could gather, at the parlour window, from the ailantus-trees behind the wooden paling."
• "She was very glad that she was not obliged to tell him that the ceremony of their betrothal had taken place out there under the bare ailantus-trees."
• "This Lethean influence could hardly be that of the ailantus-tree alone."