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