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Definition of Aralia spinosa
1. Noun. Small deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub of eastern United States.
Group relationships: Genus Aralia
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aralia Spinosa
Literary usage of Aralia spinosa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Aralia spinosa L. Sp. Pl. 273. 1753. A shrub or tree, reaching a maximum height
of about 40° and trunk diameter of 12' but usually much smaller. ..."
2. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"Aralia spinosa.—PRICKLY ELDER. The bark of the Aralia spinosa, Linné. Nat. ...
The Aralia spinosa is a small tree, with an unsymmetric, naked stem, ..."
3. Forest Flora of Japan: Notes on the Forest Flora of Japan by Charles Sprague. Sargent (1894)
"The second Japanese Aralia only differs from our American Aralia spinosa in its
... Aralia spinosa, var. elata, is a common tree in Yezo and in all the low ..."
4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1870)
"As in Aralia spinosa, the male flowers do not open until some time after the
female ones; and not before some of the latter, impatient of delay, ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"... who believed that all leaves grew near their apices, studied particularly the
leaf development in Aralia spinosa L. which is of the ..."