ash
has definitions from the field of botany
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[ noun ] the residue that remains when something is burned
Used in print (Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)And , therefore , being in disgrace , they would not be cremated and their ashes flung to the winds in public ceremony . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)Sameness lined the streets with two story houses the color of ash . |
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[ noun ] (botany) any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus
Synonyms Used in print (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)Maple and ash , beech and elm , one_hundred to win on Three in the fourth , fifty to win on Six in the third , one_hundred to win on Two in the eighth . |
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[ verb ] convert into ashes
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1436
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[ noun ] strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats
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