Define the word prickly ash"Prickly ash" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Prickly ash \Prickly ash\ (Bot.),
1. A prickly shrub (Xanthoxylum Americanum) with yellowish
flowers appearing with the leaves; also called toothache tree. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic.
The southern species is Xanthoxylum Carolinianum.
--Gray.
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2. (Bot.), Hercules'-club, also called the Angelica tree.
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"prickly ash" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Hercules'-club \Hercules'-club\, Hercules'-club
\Hercules'-club\, Hercules-club \Hercules-club\prop. n.
1. (Bot.) A densely spiny ornamental tree (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis) of the rue family, growing in southeast
U. S. and West Indies. [WordNet sense 1]
Note: It belongs to the same genus as one of the trees
(Zanthoxylum Americanum) called prickly ash.
Syn: Hercules'-clubs, Hercules-club, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis.
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2. A small, prickly, deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub
(Aralia spinosa) of eastern U.S.; also called Angelica tree and prickly ash. [WordNet sense 2]
Syn: American angelica tree, devil's walking stick, Aralia spinosa.
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3. A variety of the common gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris). Its
fruit sometimes exceeds five feet in length.
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"Prickly ash" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Ash \Ash\ ([a^]sh), n. [OE. asch, esh, AS. [ae]sc; akin to OHG.
asc, Sw. & Dan. ask, Icel. askr, D. esch, G. esche.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of trees of the Olive family, having
opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing
valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (Fraxinus Americana).
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Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum Americanum) and Poison ash
(Rhus venenata) are shrubs of different families,
somewhat resembling the true ashes in their foliage.
Mountain ash. See Roman tree, and under Mountain.
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2. The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.
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Note: Ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a
compound term; as, ash bud, ash wood, ash tree, etc.
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"prickly ash" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
prickly ash
n 1: any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum
having spiny branches
2: Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young
they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender
axillary spikes of white flowers [syn: Orites excelsa]
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