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prickly ash

DEFINITIONS OF: prickly ash

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n any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches

Types:
Zanthoxylum americanum, Zanthoxylum fraxineum, sea ash, toothache tree
small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America
Hercules'-club, Hercules'-clubs, Hercules-club, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis
densely spiny ornamental of southeastern United States and West Indies
Type of:
tree
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

n Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers

Synonyms:
Orites excelsa
Type of:
tree
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
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