hercules'-club \hercules'-club\, hercules'-club
\hercules'-club\, hercules-club \hercules-club\prop. n.
   1. bot. a densely spiny ornamental tree zanthoxylum
      clava-herculis of the rue family, growing in southeast
      u. s. and west indies. wordnet sense 1

   note: it belongs to the same genus as one of the trees
         zanthoxylum americanum called prickly ash.

   syn: hercules'-clubs, hercules-club, zanthoxylum
        clava-herculis.
        1913 webster + wordnet 1.5

   2. a small, prickly, deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub
      aralia spinosa of eastern u.s.; also called angelica
      tree and prickly ash. wordnet sense 2

   syn: american angelica tree, devil's walking stick, aralia
        spinosa.
        1913 webster + wordnet 1.5

   3. a variety of the common gourd lagenaria vulgaris. its
      fruit sometimes exceeds five feet in length.
      1913 webster
see also:
zanthoxylum clava-herculis zanthoxylum americanum prickly ash zanthoxylum clava-herculis aralia spinosa angelica tree 
aralia spinosa lagenaria vulgaris 

ash \ash\ a^sh, n. oe. asch, esh, as. aesc; akin to ohg.
   asc, sw.  dan. ask, icel. askr, d. esch, g. esche.
   1. bot. a genus of trees of the olive family, having
      opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing
      valuable timber, as the european ash fraxinus
      excelsior and the white ash fraxinus americana.
      1913 webster

   prickly ash zanthoxylum americanum and poison ash
      rhus venenata are shrubs of different families,
      somewhat resembling the true ashes in their foliage.

   mountain ash. see roman tree, and under mountain.
      1913 webster

   2. the tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.
      1913 webster

   note: ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a
         compound term; as, ash bud, ash wood, ash tree, etc.
         1913 webster
see also:
fraxinus excelsior fraxinus americana prickly ash zanthoxylum americanum poison ash rhus venenata 
mountain ash roman tree mountain 

zanthoxylum americanum
     n : small deciduous aromatic shrub or tree having spiny
         branches and yellowish flowers; eastern north america
         syn: toothache tree, sea ash, zanthoxylum fraxineum
see also:
toothache tree sea ash zanthoxylum fraxineum