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 Ash n.
 1. Bot. A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (Fraxinus Americana).
 Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum Americanum) and Poison ash (Rhus venenata) are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the true ashes in their foliage.
 Mountain ash. See Roman tree, and under Mountain.
 2. The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.
 Note: Ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound term; as, ash bud, ash wood, ash tree, etc.

 Hercules'-club, Hercules'-club, Hercules-club prop. n.
 1. Bot. A densely spiny ornamental tree (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis) of the rue family, growing in southeast U. S. and West Indies. [wns=1]
 Note: It belongs to the same genus as one of the trees (Zanthoxylum Americanum) called prickly ash.
 Syn: -- Hercules'-clubs, Hercules-club, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis.
 2. A small, prickly, deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub (Aralia spinosa) of eastern U.S.; also called Angelica tree and prickly ash. [wns=2]
 Syn: -- American angelica tree, devil's walking stick, Aralia spinosa.
 3. A variety of the common gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris). Its fruit sometimes exceeds five feet in length.
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 Zanthoxylum americanum
      n : small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny
          branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America
          [syn: toothache tree, sea ash, Zanthoxylum fraxineum]