Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An aromatic North American shrub or tree (Zanthoxylum americanum) whose dried bark has medicinal uses. Also called Northern prickly ash.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The prickly-ash.
- n. The somewhat similar Aralia spinosa, or angelica-tree, sometimes called wild orange.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A shrub of the genus Aralia (Aralia spinosa).
WordNet 3.0
- n. small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America
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hernesheir In my area, common name for Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, a.k.a. "Hercules club". Tongue and gums go uncomfortably numb when leaves of this tree in the citrus family are chewed. Sep 17, 2009