Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun prickly_ash
2 senses of prickly ash
Sense 1
prickly ash -- (any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches)
=> tree -- (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Sense 2
prickly ash, Orites excelsa -- (Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers)
=> tree -- (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)