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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America;
[syn: toothache tree, sea ash, Zanthoxylum americanum, Zanthoxylum fraxineum]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] 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. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] 3. A variety of the common gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris). Its fruit sometimes exceeds five feet in length. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ash \Ash\ ([a^]sh), n. [OE. asch, esh, AS. [ae]sc; akin to OHG. asc, Sw. & Dan. ask, Icel. askr, D. esch, G. esche.] 1. (Bot.) A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (Fraxinus Americana). [1913 Webster] Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum Americanum) and Poison ash (Rhus venenata) are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the true ashes in their foliage. Mountain ash. See Roman tree, and under Mountain. [1913 Webster] 2. The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree. [1913 Webster] Note: Ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound term; as, ash bud, ash wood, ash tree, etc. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Zanthoxylum americanum n 1: small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America [syn: toothache tree, sea ash, Zanthoxylum americanum, Zanthoxylum fraxineum]