ZANTHOXYLUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Zanthoxylum mean? 

• ZANTHOXYLUM (noun)
  The noun ZANTHOXYLUM has 1 sense:

1. deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs: prickly ash

  Familiarity information: ZANTHOXYLUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZANTHOXYLUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs: prickly ash

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Zanthoxylum; Zanthoxylum

Hypernyms ("Zanthoxylum" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Zanthoxylum"):

prickly ash (any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches)

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 ("Zanthoxylum" is a member of...):

family Rutaceae; rue family; Rutaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of order Geraniales; have flowers that are divide into four or five parts and usually have a strong scent)