Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A spiny tree or shrub (Aralia spinosa) of the eastern United States, having bipinnately compound leaves and large panicles of small white flowers.
- noun A spiny shrub or tree (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis) of the central and southeast United States, having pinnately compound leaves and terminal panicles of small greenish-yellow flowers.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After the spiny club of Hercules.]
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