NOUN | plant | prickly ash | any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches |
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plant | prickly ash, Orites excelsa | Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers |
Meaning | Any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches. | |
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Member of | Zanthoxylum, genus Zanthoxylum | deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs |
Narrower | Hercules'-club, Hercules'-clubs, Hercules-club, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis | densely spiny ornamental of southeastern United States and West Indies |
toothache tree, sea ash, Zanthoxylum americanum, Zanthoxylum fraxineum | small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny branches and yellowish flowers | |
Broader | tree | A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown |
Meaning | 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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Synonym | Orites excelsa | |
Member of | Orites, genus Orites | small genus of Australian shrubs or trees |
Broader | tree | A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown |
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