单词 | prickly ash |
释义 | prickly ash (once / 262652 pages) n WORD FAMILY prickly ash USAGE EXAMPLESIn both East Asia and North America, preparations of prickly ash are used as folk medicine for their anesthetic or pain‑masking properties. Scientific American(Feb 04, 2015) Sichuan flower pepper isn't actually black pepper at all, but the aromatic flower of a bush related to the prickly ash. The Guardian(Aug 22, 2012) Fair are the sheathed berries of the prickly ash—but daggers to the taste. Storm, Marian, Minstrel Weather(2012) 1n any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches Hypo|Hyper Zanthoxylum americanum, Zanthoxylum fraxineum, sea ash, toothache tree small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America Hercules'-club, Hercules'-clubs, Hercules-club, Zanthoxylum clava-herculisdensely spiny ornamental of southeastern United States and West Indies tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms 2n Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers Syn|Hyper Orites excelsa tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms |
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