Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hercules'-club

2 senses of hercules'-club

Sense 1
Hercules'-club, Hercules'-clubs, Hercules-club, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis -- (densely spiny ornamental of southeastern United States and West Indies)
       => prickly ash -- (any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches)

Sense 2
American angelica tree, devil's walking stick, Hercules'-club, Aralia spinosa -- (small deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub of eastern United States)
       => shrub, bush -- (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)