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TOOTHACHE TREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does toothache tree mean?
• TOOTHACHE TREE (noun)
The noun TOOTHACHE TREE has 1 sense:
1. small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America
Familiarity information: TOOTHACHE TREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
sea ash; toothache tree; Zanthoxylum americanum; Zanthoxylum fraxineum
Hypernyms ("toothache tree" is a kind of...):
prickly ash (any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches)
Holonyms ("toothache tree" is a member of...):
genus Zanthoxylum; Zanthoxylum (deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs: prickly ash)
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