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SEA ASH
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America
Synonyms:
sea ash; toothache tree; Zanthoxylum americanum; Zanthoxylum fraxineum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sea ash" is a kind of...):
prickly ash (any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches)
Holonyms ("sea ash" is a member of...):
genus Zanthoxylum; Zanthoxylum (deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs: prickly ash)