| 单词 | prickly ash |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprickly ash prickly ash n. 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); (b) any of several spiny or prickly pinnate-leaved shrubs or trees of the genus Zanthoxylum (family Rutaceae), esp. either of two shrubs whose aromatic bark is used medicinally, the toothache tree, Z. americanum and the Hercules' club Z. clava-herculis. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > prickly ash prickly ash1705 toothache-tree1731 1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia 26 The bark of the root of..the Prickly Ash, being dried and powder'd, has been found to be a Specifick, in old Ulcers, and Long-running Sores. 1743 J. F. Gronovius Flora Virginica II. 150 Aralia... Gambriar and Prickly-ash. 1821 T. Nuttall Jrnl. Trav. Arkansa Territory 110 I saw here a prickly ash (Zanthoxylion Clava Herculis), the size of an ordinary ash, but the same species as that of the southern states, and the bark proving equally efficacious for allaying the tooth-ache. 1860 M. A. Curtis Bot. 91 Prickly ash. (Aralia spinosa)... The berries..are thought by some to be also a valuable remedy for the bite of a rattlesnake. 2004 Photochem. & Photobiol. 79 506/1 Northern prickly ash, Zanthoxylum americanum, is a traditional phytomedicine used by the North American First Nation's Peoples as a topical agent for the treatment of skin infections. < as lemmas |
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