devil's walking stick

1. 1.

   small deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub of eastern United States

   SynonymsAmerican angelica treeHercules'-clubAralia spinosa

   Broadershrub

   Part ofgenus Aralia

Questions about devil's walking stick

What does devil's walking stick mean?

devil's walking stick means "small deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub of eastern United States".

What is another word for devil's walking stick?

Close synonyms include American angelica tree, Hercules'-club, Aralia spinosa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is devil's walking stick a common word?

devil's walking stick is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.