prickly ash
Noun
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Any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches (synset 112735515)
is a type of: tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiospermssubtypes:
- sea ash, toothache tree, zanthoxylum americanum, zanthoxylum fraxineum - 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
belongs to: genus zanthoxylum, zanthoxylum - deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs: prickly ash -
Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers (synset 112242607)
is a type of: tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiospermsbelongs to: genus orites, orites - small genus of Australian shrubs or treessame as: orites excelsa
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