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Buckthorn :: Buckthorn (n.) A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.

May :: May (n.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn..

Spinulose :: Spinulescent (a.) Having small spines; somewhat thorny.

Tinet :: Tinet (n.) Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.

Chaparral :: Chaparral (n.) An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.

Christ''s-thorn :: Christ's-thorn (n.) One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns..

Thornbird :: Thornbird (n.) A small South American bird (Anumbius anumbii) allied to the ovenbirds of the genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree.

Frangulin :: Frangulin (n.) A yellow crystalline dyestuff, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from a species (Rhamnus Frangula) of the buckthorn; -- called also rhamnoxanthin..

Spininess :: Spinigerous (a.) Bearing a spine or spines; thorn-bearing.

Juwansa :: Juwansa (n.) The camel's thorn. See under Camel.

Cockspur :: Cockspur (n.) A variety of Crataegus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn..

Blackthorn :: Blackthorn (n.) A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe..

Dorn :: Dorn (n.) A British ray; the thornback.

Pyracanth :: Pyracanth (n.) The evergreen thorn (Crataegus Pyracantha), a shrub native of Europe..

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

Maybush :: Maybush (n.) The hawthorn.

Boxthorn :: Boxthorn (n.) A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum..

Emodin :: Emodin (n.) An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei)..

Thornbill :: Thornbill (n.) Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane..

Spinous :: Spinous (a.) Spinose; thorny.

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