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 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 . [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] 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 . [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] 3. A variety of the common gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris). Its fruit sometimes exceeds five feet in length. [1913 Webster]