XANTHOXYLUM
\zˈanθəksˌa͡ɪləm], \zˈanθəksˌaɪləm], \z_ˈa_n_θ_ə_k_s_ˌaɪ_l_ə_m]\
Definitions of XANTHOXYLUM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A genus of prickly shrubs or small trees, the bark and rots of which are of a deep yellow color; prickly ash.
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A genus of prickly shrubs or small trees, the bark and rots of which are of a deep yellow color; prickly ash.
By Noah Webster.
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Prickly ash, the bark of Xanthoxylum americanum or of Fagara clava-herculis, the northern and southern prickly ash respectively; employed in an alterative, carminative and diaphoretic in doses of gr. 20-60 (1.3-4.0).
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A genus of trees and shrubs with a yellow wood, characterized by pungent aromatic qualities, and of medicinal value.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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zan-thok'si-lum, n. a genus of the Rutaceæ, comprising over one hundred species, of which many are found in Brazil and the West Indies--the Prickly Ash or Toothache-tree. [Formed from Gr. xanthos, yellow, xylon, wood.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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