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prickly ash

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English

Syllables
prick-ly ash
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a number of trees and shrubs in the genus Zanthoxylum containing Sichuan pepper and the American Midwest invasive species.

noun

Aralia spinosa, a plant native to eastern North America

noun

Orites excelsus, a plant native to Australia

noun

Papilio pelaus, a butterfly

Inflected Forms

prickly ashes (plural)

Phrases

shiny-leaf prickly ash

Synonyms

orites excelsa

Questions

What does prickly ash mean?
Any of a number of trees and shrubs in the genus Zanthoxylum containing Sichuan pepper and the American Midwest invasive species.

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