(n)Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers, Syn.Orites excelsa
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(Bot.), 1. A prickly shrub (Xanthoxylum Americanum) with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves; also called toothache tree. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species is Xanthoxylum Carolinianum. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Bot.), Hercules'-club, also called the Angelica tree. [ PJC ]
[さんしょう;さんしょ;サンショウ, sanshou ; sansho ; sanshou](n) (uk) Japanese pepper (species of Sichuan pepper, Zanthoxylum piperitum); Japanese prickly ash[Add to Longdo]