English

Sorbus aucuparia

Eucalyptus regnans

Noun

mountain ash ‎(usually uncountable, plural mountain ashes)

1. (Britain) The European species Sorbus aucuparia, commonly known as rowan or more specifically European rowan.
   • 2007, Tyler Guthrie, Mountain Ash: Formally Rowan Tree, Trinity College, Academic Dissertation.
2. Any of several trees in the genus Sorbus in North America.
   • 1974, William M. Healy, Shrubs and Vines for Northeastern Wildlife, Issues 6-10, page 99,

     All three mountain-ashes are shrubs of climax and subclimax northern coniferous forest communities, along with speckled alder, Labrador tea, mountain and red maples, yellow birch, and bunchberry.

   • 2008, Elna Fone Nugent, Mountain Ash: A New England Memoir, page 30,

     To the front left of the house, just up from the sidewalk, was a mountain ash tree. Before I was born, Gramma Moody, planted the mountain ash tree there.

   • 2011, Ruth Sims, The Legend of the Mountain Ash, unnumbered page,

     In the hills of Appalachia, in a cove that no living man will ever find, is a Mountain Ash unlike any other in the world.

3. A tree native to southeastern Australia, Eucalyptus regnans, the tallest of all flowering plants.
   • 2002, Brendan Mackey, David Lindenmayer, Malcolm Gill, Michael McCarthy, Janette Lindesay (editors), Wildlife, Fire and Future Climate: A Forest Ecosystem Analysis, page 42,

     McCarthy and Lindenmayer (1998) developed a model of the development of multi-aged Mountain Ash forest in response to fire. The model predicted the prevalence of multi-aged Mountain Ash forest as a function of the mean fire interval.

4. A Texan ash tree species, Fraxinus texensis.

Usage notes

Genus Sorbus also includes trees commonly known as whitebeam, rowan, and service tree.

Synonyms

• (Sorbus aucuparia): European rowan, rowan
• (Eucalyptus regnans): stringy gum, swamp gum, Tasmanian oak, Victorian ash
• (Fraxinus texensis): Texas ash

Derived terms

• American mountain ash

Translations

See also

• mountain ash on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sorbus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Sorbus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Eucalyptus regnans on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons