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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Prickly ash Bot.,
 1.  A prickly shrub (Xanthoxylum Americanum) with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves; also called toothache tree. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic.  The southern species is Xanthoxylum Carolinianum. --Gray.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tooth·ache n. Med. Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.
 Toothache grass Bot., a kind of grass (Ctenium Americanum) having a very pungent taste.
 Toothache tree. Bot. (a) The prickly ash. (b) A shrub of the genus Aralia (Aralia spinosa).
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 toothache tree
      n : small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny
          branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America
          [syn: sea ash, Zanthoxylum americanum, Zanthoxylum
           fraxineum]