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any of various North American prickly shrubs or trees: spec. (a) a shrub with spiny bark, the devil's walking stick, Aralia spinosa (family Araliaceae…
(a) name for several North American species of the genus Xanthoxylon, having pungent aromatic fruit, esp. X. fraxineum, also called prickly ash…