zanthoxylum americanum

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]

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]