Hercules'-club
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1
: a small prickly eastern U.S. tree (Aralia spinosa) of the ginseng family with large compound leaves
— called also
angelica tree
2 : a small prickly southern U.S. tree (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis) of the rue family
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