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hercules-club

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Her⋅cu⋅les-club

[hur-kyuh-leez-kluhb]
–noun
1. Also called Southern prickly ash. a prickly tree, Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, of the rue family, having a medicinal bark and berries.
2. Also called angelica tree, devil's-walking-stick. a prickly shrub, of the ginseng family, Aralia spinosa, having a medicinal bark and root.
Also called prickly ash.


Origin:
1680–90
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hercules-club

noun
densely spiny ornamental of southeastern United States and West Indies [syn: Hercules'-club
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