Definition of Hercules-club

1. Noun. Densely spiny ornamental of southeastern United States and West Indies.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Hercules-club

Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Herbert Marx
Herbert McLean Evans
Herbert Spencer
Herbie
Herbig-Haro object
Herbst
Herbst's corpuscles
Hercegovina
Herceptin
Herculaneum
Herculean
Hercules
Hercules'-club
Hercules'-clubs
Hercules-club
Hercules beetle
Hercules beetles
Herculæan
Hercynian
Hereford
Hereford and Worcester
Herefords
Herefordshire
Herelle
Herellea
Herero
Hereward
Hering's sinus nerve

Literary usage of Hercules-club

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"Hercules' Club (Aralia spinosa, Linn.)—A spreading, aromatic, spiny tree, with club-like ... The Hercules' club certainly earns its name when an under- ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"He is most frequently represented clothed in a lion's skin and carrying a club. HERCULES' CLUB, a trivial name for three widely different plants : \. ..."

3. Tree Guide: Trees East of the Rockies by Julia Ellen Rogers (1914)
"... HERCULES'CLUB (Aralia spinosa, Linn.). Shrub to 15 feet. Spreading, aromatic, spiny bush, with many stout stems from the roots, or tree with club-like, ..."

4. Stevens Indicator by Stevens Institute of Technology (1884)
"THE RHYME OF THE HERCULES CLUB. Being a ballad of to-day, designed to illustrate the principle of reaction, and to set forth hotu there mav be too much of ..."

5. A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology: Comprising All Organic and by David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth (1906)
"N:I A>h, Pepper-wood, Hercules' Club, Yellow Hercules, Prickly Yellow Wood; ... neither should be confounded with Ara'lia spina'sa, Hercules' Club, ..."

6. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"The two species are the American HERCULES CLUB (336)—Aralia ... No shrubs in the northern states have FIG. 336. —Hercules Club. ..."

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