toothache tree

3 definitions found

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

  Prickly ash \Prickly ash\ (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]

  Toothache \Tooth"ache`\, n. (Med.)
     Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     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).
         [1913 Webster]

toothache tree - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  toothache tree
      n 1: small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny
           branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America [syn:
           toothache tree, sea ash, Zanthoxylum americanum,
           Zanthoxylum fraxineum]