PRICKLY ASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prickly ash mean? 

• PRICKLY ASH (noun)
  The noun PRICKLY ASH has 2 senses:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: PRICKLY ASH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRICKLY ASH (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Orites excelsa; prickly ash

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)