0 a small, sharp pointed growth on the stem of a plant --
1 a small, sharp, pointed growth on the stem of a plant: --
Rose bushes have thorns.
The fences should be of birch instead of thorns.
The garlands of roses that come to them to-day, perhaps, are not wholly without thorns.
A co-wife in feminine vocabulary was a thorn in one's side (satin kanta).
Considering we didn't have a refrigerator, all meals on uncomfortable humid days were prepared outside under the familiar shade of a thorn tree.
However, their dendrites are profusely branching with many thorn-like varicosities densely filling the area of arborization.
Their thin wavy dendrites were covered with characteristic, fine, thorn-like protrusions.
At the end of the arm is what looks like a tiny lollipop with a pointy thorn at the centre.
In front of its trading store lie the remains of what was once an enormous camel thorn tree.
