SEA ASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sea ash mean? 

• SEA ASH (noun)
  The noun SEA ASH has 1 sense:

1. small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America

  Familiarity information: SEA ASH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEA ASH (noun)

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Meaning:

Small deciduous aromatic shrub (or tree) having spiny branches and yellowish flowers; eastern North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

sea ash; toothache tree; Zanthoxylum americanum; Zanthoxylum fraxineum

Hypernyms ("sea ash" is a kind of...):

prickly ash (any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches)

Holonyms ("sea ash" is a member of...):

genus Zanthoxylum; Zanthoxylum (deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs: prickly ash)