Noun: prickly ash prik-lee ash
- Any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches
"The prickly ash's bark is used in traditional medicine"
- Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers
"The prickly ash's thorny branches deterred climbers";
- Orites excelsa
Derived forms: prickly ashes
Type of: tree
Part of: genus Orites, genus Zanthoxylum, Orites, Zanthoxylum
Encyclopedia: Prickly ash