toothache tree love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An aromatic, spiny North American shrub or tree (Zanthoxylum americanum) whose dried bark has medicinal uses.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The prickly-ash.
  • noun The somewhat similar Aralia spinosa, or angelica-tree, sometimes called wild orange.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America

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  • In my area, common name for Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, a.k.a. "Hercules club". Tongue and gums go uncomfortably numb when leaves of this tree in the citrus family are chewed.

    September 17, 2009