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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of numerous cosmopolitan, deciduous or evergreen shrubs or trees of the genus Zanthoxylum, having aromatic bark and alternate, mostly pinnate leaves.
- n. See Hercules' club.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the true ashes in their foliage.
- (Bot.) 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. - (Bot.) Hercules'-club, also called the
Angelica tree .
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches
- n. Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers
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