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Webster 1913 Edition
Fraxinus
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Frax′i-nus
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Noun.
[L., the ash tree.]
(Bot.)
A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.
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Fraxinus excelsior
is the European ash; Fraxinus Americana
, the white ash; Fraxinus sambucifolia
, the black ash or water ash. Who began this bloody
fray
? Shakespeare