Maple vs. Ash

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Maplenoun

A tree of the Acer genus, characterised by its usually palmate leaves and winged seeds.

Maplenoun

The wood of such a tree, prized for its hardness and attractive appearance

Maplenoun

A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. Acer saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red maple or swamp maple is Acer rubrum; the silver maple, Acer dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, Acer Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is Acer campestre, the sycamore maple is Acer Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is Acer platanoides.

Maplenoun

wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring

Maplenoun

any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone

Maple

Acer is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples. The genus is placed in the family Sapindaceae.

Ashnoun

The solid remains of a fire.

Ashnoun

(chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.

Ashnoun

Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.

Ashnoun

(in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.

Ashnoun

(figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.

Ashnoun

A gray colour, like that of ash.

Ashnoun

A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus.

Ashnoun

(uncountable) The wood of this tree.

Ashnoun

The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English.

Ashverb

(chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.

Ashverb

To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.

Ashverb

To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.

Ashnoun

A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (Fraxinus Americana).

Ashnoun

The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.

Ashnoun

sing. of Ashes.

Ashverb

To strew or sprinkle with ashes.

Ashnoun

the residue that remains when something is burned

Ashnoun

any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus

Ashnoun

strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats

Ashverb

convert into ashes

Ashnoun

the powdery residue left after the burning of a substance

Ashnoun

the remains of a human body after cremation or burning

Ashnoun

the mineral component of an organic substance, as assessed from the residue left after burning

Ashnoun

a trophy for the winner of a series of Test matches in a cricket season between England and Australia.

Ashnoun

a tree with compound leaves, winged fruits, and hard pale timber, widely distributed throughout north temperate regions.

Ashnoun

the hard pale wood of the ash tree.

Ashnoun

used in names of trees unrelated to the ash but with similar leaves, e.g. mountain ash.

Ashnoun

an Old English runic letter, ᚫ, a vowel intermediate between a and e. It is represented in the Roman alphabet by the symbol æ or Æ.

Ash

Ash or ashes are the solid remnants of fires. Specifically, ash refers to all non-aqueous, non-gaseous residues that remain after something burns.

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