prickly+shrub

  • 11prickly ash — noun Date: 1709 a prickly aromatic North American shrub or small tree (Zanthoxylum americanum) of the rue family with yellowish flowers …

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  • 12prickly ash — 1. Also called toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches. 2. Hercules club (def. 2). [1700 10, Amer.] * * * …

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  • 13prickly Moses — /prɪkli ˈmoʊzəz / (say priklee mohzuhz) noun 1. a spreading, densely branched shrub, Acacia farnesiana, with globular yellow flower heads from which a perfume is made, found in dry inland areas. 2. a number of similar related species with pungent …

  • 14prickly ash — /prɪkli ˈæʃ/ (say priklee ash) noun 1. a shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, of North America, with aromatic leaves and branches usually armed with strong prickles. 2. an Australian tree, Orites excelsa, with useful and attractive timber …

  • 15prickly apple — noun : a common West Indian thorny shrub or small tree (Catesbaea spinosa) called also lily thorn …

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  • 16prickly juniper — noun : an evergreen shrub or small tree (Juniperus oxycedrus) with spine tipped leaves …

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  • 17prickly tea tree — noun : an Australian shrub (Melaleuca styphelioides) with pubescent spikes of white flowers …

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  • 18Bactris Plumierana — Prickly Prick ly, a. Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. [1913 Webster] {Prickly heat} (Med.), a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of red pimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the …

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  • 19Cereus triangularis — Prickly Prick ly, a. Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. [1913 Webster] {Prickly heat} (Med.), a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of red pimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the …

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  • 20Opuntia Dillenii — Prickly Prick ly, a. Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. [1913 Webster] {Prickly heat} (Med.), a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of red pimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the …

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