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Prickly Ash

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Noun

1. prickly ash

any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches

2. orites excelsa, prickly ash

Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Prickly Ash

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noun
a North American rutaceous shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having prickly branches, feathery aromatic leaves, and bark used as a remedy for toothache
. Also called: toothache tree

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Prickly Ash

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either of two North American shrubs or trees (genus Zanthoxylum) of the rue family, with pinnately compound leaves having paired spines at the base

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Prickly Ash

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n.
1. Any of various deciduous or evergreen thorny shrubs or trees of the genus Zanthoxylum, having aromatic bark and alternate, usually pinnate leaves, and including the toothache tree.
2. See Hercules' club.

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