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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