'Prickly ash' definitions:
Definition of 'prickly ash'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches
noun
Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers [syn: prickly ash, Orites excelsa]
Definition of 'Prickly ash'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'prickly ash'
From: GCIDE
- 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]