| 词汇 | hercules’ club |
| 词源 | Hercules’ club. The club carried by the mythological strongman Hercules was hewn from a thick wild olive branch, but somehow Aralia spinosa, a small, spring-trunked ornamental tree of the ginseng family, came to be known as Hercules’ club. The prickly plant, which also goes by the names angelica tree and devil’s walkingstick, has a medicinal bark and root, and hedges of Hercules’ club form a strong impenetrable barrier. Creating some confusion, however, is the fact that Zanthoxylum clava-herculis, commonly known as the “prickly ash” and the “toothache tree,” is also called Hercules’ club. See apple. |
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