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Definition of Prickly ash

1. Noun. Any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches.

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prickly Ash

prickle-weed prickle cell prickleback pricklebacks prickled prickles pricklice pricklier prickliest prickliness

pricklinesses prickling pricklouse prickly prickly-seeded spinach prickly ash (current term) prickly custard apple prickly heat prickly lettuce prickly oak

prickly pear prickly pear cactus prickly pears prickly pine prickly poppy prickly shield fern prickmadam prickpunch prickpunches pricks

Literary usage of Prickly ash

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The Negro in the South chews a piece of prickly ash bark to cure the toothache. ... The prickly ash in its best estate looks like a well-grown apple tree, ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"The small, greenish, axillary flowers are dioecious, and prickly ash ^Xanthoxylum ... The southern prickly ash is X. Carolinianum, found on the coast from ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1864)
"One of his friends, to whom he subsequently applied in January of this year, was enabled to obtain, at Beaufort, SC, branches of the prickly ash and ..."

4. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"... USP (prickly ash).—The dried bark of Xanthoxylum ameri- canum or X. Clava-Herculis. Contains berberin. Dose, 2 Gm., 30 gr., ..."

5. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"prickly ash has a taste which is at first aromatic, then bitter, ... prickly ash is stimulant and diaphoretic, and has long enjoyed a certain degree of ..."

6. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The small, greenish, axillary flowers are dioecious, and prickly ash (Xanthoxylum ... The southern prickly ash is X. Carolinianum, found on the coast from ..."

7. Transactions of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1869)
"I found only a few pupae in their holes in the wood ; but a few days later I took a number of specimens of the perfect insect by healing tho prickly ash ..."

8. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"prickly ash. 2. PTELEA. Linn.—Shrubby Trefoil. (The Greek name of the dm, from a root which alludes to the winged seed vessels. ..."

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