Found 2 items, similar to Prickly ash.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: prickly ash 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Prickly ash 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] 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). [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree. [1913 Webster] Note: Ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound term; as, ash bud, ash wood, ash tree, etc. [1913 Webster]