Zanthoxylum

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\ noun

Etymology: 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

b. -s : any plant of the genus Zanthoxylum

2

also xanthoxylum -s : the dried bark of prickly ash or hercules'-club formerly used as a diaphoretic and stimulant