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- Dictionarythorn/THôrn/
noun
- 1. a stiff, sharp-pointed, straight or curved woody projection on the stem or other part of a plant.
- 2. a thorny bush, shrub, or tree, especially a hawthorn.
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a small, sharp, pointed growth on the stem of a plant:
The meaning of THORN is a sharp rigid process on a plant; especially : one that is a short, indurated, sharp-pointed, and leafless modified stem.
A thorn is a sharp spike that protrudes from the stem of a plant. Roses are famous for having the sweetest fragrance and the sharpest thorns. Literal thorns, found on bushes and other plants, serve to protect plants from animals that might like to eat them.
THORN meaning: 1. a small, sharp pointed growth on the stem of a plant 2. a small, sharp pointed growth on the…. Learn more.
anything that keeps troubling, vexing, or irritating one, like a constantly pricking thorn. : usually in the phrase thorn in one's side (or flesh) 4. a rune in the Old English and Old Norse alphabets (þ), used to represent the voiced or voiceless apicodental fricative.
Thorn definition: a sharp excrescence on a plant, especially a sharp-pointed aborted branch; spine; prickle.. See examples of THORN used in a sentence.
1. a hard, sharp outgrowth on a plant, esp. a sharp-pointed aborted branch. 2. a thorny tree or shrub, as the hawthorne. 3. the wood of such a plant. 4. a runic character (þ), borrowed into the Latin alphabet and used to represent the initial th sounds of thin and they in Old English and of thin in modern Icelandic.
a thorn in somebody’s flesh/side. a person or thing that repeatedly annoys somebody or stops them from doing something. Definition of thorn noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
THORN definition: a small, sharp point on the stem of a plant. Learn more.
thorn meaning, definition, what is thorn: a sharp point that grows on the stem of ...: Learn more.
