toothache grass

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toothache grass - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Toothache \Tooth"ache`\, n. (Med.)
     Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.
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     Toothache grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Ctenium  Americanum
        ) having a very pungent taste.
  
     Toothache tree. (Bot.)
     (a) The prickly ash.
     (b) A shrub of the genus Aralia (Aralia spinosa).
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