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PRICKLY ASH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers

Synonyms:

Orites excelsa; prickly ash

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("prickly ash" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("prickly ash" is a member of...):

genus Orites; Orites (small genus of Australian shrubs or trees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("prickly ash" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prickly ash"):

sea ash; toothache tree; Zanthoxylum americanum; Zanthoxylum fraxineum (small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America)

Hercules'-club; Hercules'-clubs; Hercules-club; Zanthoxylum clava-herculis (densely spiny ornamental of southeastern United States and West Indies)

Holonyms ("prickly ash" is a member of...):

genus Zanthoxylum; Zanthoxylum (deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs: prickly ash)

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