…a stiff, sharp-pointed woody projection on the stem or other part of a plant…
…either of two spiny leguminous shrubs occurring in arid country…
…a poisonous datura with large trumpet-shaped white flowers and toothed leaves, which has become a weed of waste ground in many countries…
…a tropical African shrub or small tree with glossy leaves and thorns which grow in pairs, one of each pair being straight and the other curved…
…a thorny shrub popularly supposed to have formed Christ’s crown of thorns, in particular:…
…a North American hawthorn which is grown for its rich orange autumn foliage…
…a thorny tropical American tree of the pea family, grown as an ornamental…
…a source of continual annoyance or trouble…
…every apparently desirable situation has its share of trouble or difficulty…
…an African bush with hooked thorns that catch the clothing, in particular an acacia…
