prickly ash
1. any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches
• Hypernyms:
tree
• Hyponyms:
toothache tree, sea ash, Zanthoxylum americanum, Zanthoxylum fraxineum, Hercules'-club,
Hercules'-clubs, Hercules-club, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis
• Member Holonyms:
Zanthoxylum, genus Zanthoxylum
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
• Hypernyms:
tree
• Member Holonyms:
Orites, genus Orites
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