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fraxinus
Word definitions for fraxinus in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fraxinus \Frax"i*nus\, prop. n. [L., the ash tree.] (Bot.) A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees. Note: Fraxinus excelsior is the European ash; Fraxinus Americana , the white ash; Fraxinus ...
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Fraxinus , English name ash , is a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae . It contains 45–65 species of usually medium to large trees , mostly deciduous though a few subtropical species are evergreen . The genus is widespread ...
Usage examples of fraxinus.
Carus Fraxinus and Aulakh Phar have already chided me for missing a valuable opportunity, and they were right.
Nor had any message come from Carus Fraxinus by the time night fell on the eve of the Day of Thanksgiving.
Jacom, on the other hand, was wondering whether he ought to tell Fraxinus that someone seemingly had plans to liberate his precious mapmaker before anyone had the chance to get him out legally.
Jacom, who saw in this affair a golden opportunity to put the seal on his reputation, and perhaps to increase his standing in the eyes of Carus Fraxinus too.
In fact, highness, it was Fraxinus who asked me to come here tonight, to ask a small favour of you.
She had questions of her own that required answering, and she could hardly help but remember what she had told her father regarding the political importance of the expedition that Fraxinus and Keshvara were mounting.
If possible, Fraxinus wants to make peaceful contact before a war starts.
He remembered that Lucrezia had mentioned the name of Carus Fraxinus in connection with that of Hyry Keshvara and the expedition to find the source of the seed which she had planned to feed to the amber .
Lucrezia tried to tell him that there was something important about whatever it was that Fraxinus had planned .
He suspected from the way Fraxinus looked at him, however, that the merchant would very readily have made the exchange of travelling- companions.
I asked Fraxinus to try to find Uncle Theo -1 even wrote to the captain of the ship I came in on- but they evidently failed.
I believe him about Phar -- he probably knows every detail of this business that Fraxinus, Phar and Keshvara are learning up for.
She had, of course, protested vociferously that she was an honest merchant, very well known in the city, authorised to act as an agent for no less a man than Carus Fraxinus, but the soldiers had been adamant.
Jacom had sufficient presence of mind to give not the slightest indication that Fraxinus had pressed a small folded square of paper into his palm while they shook hands.
Reputations are a funny thing, he thought with Carus Fraxinus in mind rather than soldiers.