NOUN
- small to medium-sized tree of Australia and Tasmania having smooth white to light-grey bark shedding in patches or strips
- spreading American ash with leaves pale green or silvery beneath and having hard brownish wood
How To Use white ash In A Sentence
- Once the coals are covered in a fur of white ash, start by barbecuing a few vegetables.
- Our infield and outfield fungoes are turned from solid, high quality, northern white ash.
- Comparisons: The white ash is apt to be confused with the _black ash_ Studies of Trees
- On diabase and basalt ridge slopes, mixed oak forests are found; red oak, white oak, and black oak are most common, and sugar maple, chestnut oak, black birch, white ash, and tulip tree occur. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
- The trees were skeletal spires of hardened white ash, and the ground was bare of greenery, instead coated with an oily black film.
- Upland woods contain red mulberry, slippery elm, white ash, and wild black cherry.
- I thinke there is not a fairer prison in all Christendome: it is built with very faire white ashler stone, having a little walke without the roomes of the prison which is forty paces long and seven broad .... A Wanderer in Venice
- Associated species were pignut and mockernut, hickories, black gum, red maple, sassafras, sourwood, and white ash.
- Temple of the Devil, near the town of Altorf in Franconia, at the foot of a mountain covered with pine and savine, in which are found large coals resembling trees of ebony; which are so far mineralized as to be heavy and compact; and so to effloresce with pyrites in some parts as to crumble to pieces; yet from other parts white ashes are produced on calcination, from which _fixed alcali_ is procured; which evinces their vegetable origin. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
- The fire in the hearth was now a heap of white ash.