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Prickly Ash

Definition: Prickly Ash

Prickly Ash

Noun

1. Any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches.

2. Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Prickly Ash

Synonym: Orites excelsa (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Prickly Ash

English words defined with "prickly ash": Chinese peppergenus Zanthoxylumtoothache treeXanthoxylene, XanthoxylumZanthoxylum. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Prickly Ash

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

prickly ash

16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Prickly Ash

Language Translations for "prickly ash"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

бодлив храст (thorn). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

山' (Japanese pepper). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

さ"しょう (3 cheers, consultation, Japanese pepper, praise, reference, singing three times). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

icklypray ashay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Prickly Ash

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Aralia spinosa, Zanthoxylum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Prickly Ash

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-k-l-p-r-s-y"

-2 letters: hayricks, physical, rakishly, sparkily.

-3 letters: apishly, archils, caliphs, carlish, charily, clayish, crisply, hayrick, kaliphs, larkish, piscary, prickly, ricksha, scarily, shakily, sharply, sparkly, sylphic.

-4 letters: archil, archly, caliph, capris, chairs, chalks, chalky, charks, chiral, chirks, chirps, chirpy, crispy, hackly, kaliph, kirsch, laichs, lyrics, packly, palish, parish, phasic, phials, phylar, phylic, physic, piracy, placks, plashy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Prickly Ash


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 69 63 6B 6C 79      41 73 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01101001 01100011 01101011 01101100 01111001 00100000 01000001 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#105 &#99 &#107 &#108 &#121 &#32 &#65 &#115 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0069 0063 006B 006C 0079      0041 0073 0068

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

508475697778912358574

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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