Definition of "ash tree" [ash tree]

• A tree of the genus Fraxinus, with compound leaves and a tough, flexible wood. (noun)

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• "An ash tree growing just behind it strokes the roof and plays tunes on the stove-pipe chimney with its branches whenever the wind blows."
• "Soon the wood-pigeons roosting in the ash tree at eye level grew used to me."
• "It sang its heart out, moving about the roof now and then between phrases or cadenzas to a new vantage point, eventually ascending into the ash tree that overhangs the hut and the pond beside it."