Noun: toothache tree
- Small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America
"Native Americans chewed bark from the toothache tree to relieve dental pain";
- sea ash, Zanthoxylum americanum, Zanthoxylum fraxineum
Derived forms: toothache trees
Type of: prickly ash
Part of: genus Zanthoxylum, Zanthoxylum
Encyclopedia: Toothache tree