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单词 mountain ash
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mountain ash

noun
1A small deciduous tree of the rose family, with compound leaves, white flowers, and red berries. Compare with rowan.
  • Genus Sorbus, family Rosaceae: several species, in particular the North American S. americana.
These trees, including many varieties of crabapple, hawthorn, pear, mountain ash, flowering quince and pyracantha, should be pruned during the dormant season....
  • Many a Scots family planted mountain ash, a tree with brilliant red-orange berries, at its door to keep the witches and fairies away.
  • It's hard to think of autumn and winter berries without thinking of the mountain ash, or rowan tree.
2Australian A eucalyptus tree that is grown for timber.
  • Genus Eucalyptus, family Myrtaceae: several species, in particular the very tall E. regnans.
Now what about the tallest trees, because I believe the tallest one ever measured in Australia was a eucalyptus regnans, or a mountain ash, in Victoria....
  • David Lindenmeyer raises a very interesting point that the mountain ash forests in Australia, in Victoria and Tasmania, are the best carbon sinks of any forests in the world, which is quite interesting.
  • The Jurassic grandeur of the Otway National Park soon enfolded the road, the car, and much of the daylight, within a leafy tunnel of mountain ash, gum, beech and ferns.
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