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Spinet :: Spinescent (a.) Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines..

Thornless :: Thornless (a.) Destitute of, or free from, thorns..

Sapan Wood :: Sapan wood () A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood..

Glasstonbury Thorn :: Glasstonbury thorn () A variety of the common hawthorn.

Sloe :: Sloe (n.) A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself..

Thornset :: Thornset (a.) Set with thorns.

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

Thorn :: Thorn (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine..

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

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

Shrike :: Shrike (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher..

Thorny :: Thorny (superl.) Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing..

Inermis :: Inermis (a.) Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf..

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..

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

Atropine :: Atropine (n.) A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine..

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)..

Gooseberry :: Gooseberry (a.) Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated..

Spiny :: Spiny (a.) Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree..

Zareba :: Zareba (n.) An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes, etc..

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