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☆ prickly ash

either of two North American shrubs or trees (genus Zanthoxylum) of the rue family, with pinnately compound leaves having paired spines at the base

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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