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Define the word toothache tree

"toothache tree" 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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Bot.), Hercules'-club, also called the Angelica tree.
      [PJC]

"Toothache tree" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

Toothache \Tooth"ache`\, n. (Med.)
   Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.
   [1913 Webster]

   Toothache grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Ctenium Americanum) having a very pungent taste.

   Toothache tree. (Bot.)
   (a) The prickly ash.
   (b) A shrub of the genus Aralia (Aralia spinosa).
       [1913 Webster]

"toothache tree" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

toothache tree
     n : small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny
         branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America
         [syn: sea ash, Zanthoxylum americanum, Zanthoxylum fraxineum]