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prickly ash
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun prickly ash has 2 senses
- prickly ash(n = noun.plant) Array - any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches; Array is a member of genus zanthoxylum, zanthoxylum
- prickly ash(n = noun.plant) orites excelsa - Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers; Array is a member of genus orites, orites
has particulars: sea ash, toothache tree, zanthoxylum americanum, zanthoxylum fraxineum, hercules'-club, hercules'-clubs, hercules-club, zanthoxylum clava-herculis
is a kind of tree
is a kind of tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
prickly ash,
- A prickly shrub (
Xanthoxylum Americanum ) with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves; also calledtoothache tree . All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species isXanthoxylum Carolinianum . [1913 Webster] - Hercules'-club, also called the
Angelica tree . [PJC]
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