toothache grass

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Toothache \Tooth"ache`\, n. (Med.) Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia. [1913 Webster]

Toothache grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Ctenium Americanum) having a very pungent taste.

Toothache tree. (Bot.) (a) The prickly ash. (b) A shrub of the genus Aralia (Aralia spinosa). [1913 Webster]

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