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Maybush :: Maybush (n.) The hawthorn.

Thornback :: Thornback (n.) The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado).

Spinozism :: Spinous (a.) Having the form of a spine or thorn; spinelike.

Maid :: Maid (n.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata)..

Crackle :: Crackle (v. i.) To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle..

Corymb :: Corymb (n.) A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn..

Tribe :: Tribe (n.) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns..

Cascara Sagrada :: Cascara sagrada () Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative..

Rheinberry :: Rheinberry (n.) One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself..

Spinosity :: Spinose (a.) Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny.

Hyoscyamine :: Hyoscyamine (n.) An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc..

Weapon :: Weapon (n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished..

Spiniform :: Spiniferous (a.) Producing spines; bearing thorns or spines; thorny; spiny.

Whitethorn :: Whitethorn (n.) The hawthorn.

Blackthorn :: Blackthorn (n.) A species of Crataegus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both are used for hedges.

Rosaceous :: Rosaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceae) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service trees, and quinces..

Althorn :: Althorn (n.) An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn..

Thorntail :: Thorntail (n.) A beautiful South American humming bird (Gouldia Popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and pointed. The head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest..

Thornbut :: Thornbut (n.) The turbot.

Crataegus :: Crataegus (n.) A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes..

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