noun
deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs: prickly ash
• Syn: ↑genus Zanthoxylum
• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Rutaceae, ↑family Rutaceae, ↑rue family
• Member Meronyms:
↑prickly ash, ↑toothache tree, ↑sea ash, ↑Zanthoxylum americanum, ↑Zanthoxylum fraxineum, ↑Hercules'-club, ↑Hercules'-clubs, ↑Hercules-club, ↑Zanthoxylum clava-herculis
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\\ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷sələm\ nounEtymology: New Latin, irregular from xanth- + -xylum
1.
a. capitalized : a genus of widely distributed shrubs or trees (family Rutaceae) having odd-pinnate leaves, small greenish flowers with 2 to 5 pistils, and 2-valved fleshy capsules
also xanthoxylum -s : the dried bark of prickly ash or hercules'-club formerly used as a diaphoretic and stimulant
Useful english dictionary. 2012.