Definition of Ailanthuses

1. Noun. (plural of ailanthus) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ailanthuses

1. ailanthus [n] - See also: ailanthus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ailanthuses

aiguille
aiguilles
aiguillette
aiguillettes
aigulet
aigulets
aikido
aikidoka
aikidos
aikinite
aikona
ail
ailanthic
ailanthus
ailanthus silkworm
ailanthuses (current term)
ailanto
ailantos
ailantus
ailantuses
ailed
aileron
aileron authority
ailerons
aileth
ailette
ailettes
ailin'
ailing
ailings

Literary usage of Ailanthuses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Tasteby Luther Tucker by Luther Tucker (1852)
"And who, on the contrary, that has planted shade trees at all in the United States, for the last fifteen years, has not planted either ailanthuses or Abele ..."

2. Landscape Gardening by Andrew Jackson Downing (1921)
"To the eyes of the nurserymen a crop of ailanthuses and abeles is "a pasture ... Even ailanthuses and poplars from seed have tolerably respectable habits as ..."

3. Rural Essays by Andrew Jackson Downing (1869)
"Well ! then, if the nurserymen will raise ailanthuses and abeles by the thousands," reply the planting community, " and telling us nothing about ..."

4. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1854)
"We see its effects in the long lines of ailanthuses which border the streets of some of our cities, making the air noisome by their profuse bloom, ..."

5. The Horticultural review and botanical magazine (1854)
"... like the ailanthuses and many other trees, it soon perishes if the roots are soaked with water all winter. It is the most rare of all the native mag- ..."

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