ailanthus
- n any of several deciduous Asian trees of the genus Ailanthus
- The nature of the line is intimately involved with the tool Marden uses, which is in effect the ailanthus twig writ large: a long-handled brush with flitchlike bristles, floppy .
- In New England I missed the long dark river, the ailanthus trees, the flaming cardinal birds .
- Old California mining sites, of which no trace remains, can often be relocated by nearby thickets of ailanthus trees.