What is the meaning of prickly ash?

noun

  • Any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches.
  • Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers.
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