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prickly ash

Hercules'-club \Hercules'-club\, Hercules'-club \Hercules'-club\, Hercules-club \Hercules-club\prop. n.

  1. (Bot.) A densely spiny ornamental tree ( Zanthoxylum clava-herculis) of the rue family, growing in southeast U. S. and West Indies. [WordNet sense 1]

    Note: It belongs to the same genus as one of the trees ( Zanthoxylum Americanum) called prickly ash.

    Syn: Hercules'-clubs, Hercules-club, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis.

  2. A small, prickly, deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub ( Aralia spinosa) of eastern U.S.; also called Angelica tree and prickly ash. [WordNet sense 2]

    Syn: American angelica tree, devil's walking stick, Aralia spinosa.

  3. A variety of the common gourd ( Lagenaria vulgaris). Its fruit sometimes exceeds five feet in length.

WordNet
prickly ash

  1. n. any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches

  2. Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers [syn: Orites excelsa]

Usage examples of "prickly ash".

Still favoring the pulled muscle in his left shoulder, he bent and scratched at some of the dried blood on his knee whether it came from the prickly ash, the shards of quartz, or the dragon's claws he wasn't entirely certain but every bump, every bruise had been worth it.