thorn
带刺的,带刺,有刺的,带刺儿的
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Definitions
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- : a sharp excrescence on a plant, especially a sharp-pointed aborted branch; spine; prickle.
- : any of various thorny shrubs or trees, especially the hawthorns belonging to the genus Crataegus, of the rose family.
- : the wood of any of these trees.
- : a runic character, borrowed into the Latin alphabet and representing the initial th sounds in thin and they in Old English, or thin in modern Icelandic.
- : something that wounds, annoys, or causes discomfort.
- 1
- : to prick with a thorn; vex.
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Examples
Since iAd’s closure, Apple has become a thorn in the side of the online ad industry.
The Tampa Bay Rays gave New York a good fight early last season and were also a thorn in the Houston Astros’ side during the postseason.
Some fish may be eating only the crown-of-thorns’ tiny, squishy larvae.
Adorned with spikes and toxins, crown-of-thorns starfish aren’t an easy meal.
Yet occasional starfish population booms suggest something is normally eating live, healthy crown-of-thorns and keeping their numbers in check.
Thorn also posted a video on his personal YouTube page wherein he desk-dances to Taylor Swift.
But the system that Battle represents is a constant thorn in their side.
That freedom has been a thorn in the side of many cardinals who feel the sisters should be more conservative.
A tabletop bronze of a boy pulling a thorn from his foot, made around 1500 by the Renaissance sculptor known as Antico.
There are just as many covetable skirts and delicate silk tap shorts as there are thorn-cupped bras and barely-there g-strings.
Taylor alludes to several made from the well known Glastonbury thorn.
I feel as if he were a little child crying with a thorn in his finger, and he had no mother to take it out.