Thorn
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- n. 刺; 荆棘
- [英] n. 刺 ( a small sharp pointed growth on the stem of a plant)
- [类] 反义词: smooth ( 光滑的)
- [同] 派生词: thorny ( 多刺的)
[编辑] Webster Collegiate
noun
- Usage: often attributive
- Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German dorn thorn, Sanskrit t??a grass, blade of grass
- Date: before 12th century
- 1. a woody plant bearing sharp impeding processes (as prickles or spines); especially hawthorn
- 2.
- a. a sharp rigid process on a plant; specifically a short, indurated, sharp-pointed, and leafless modified branch
- b. any of various sharp spinose structures on an animal
- 3. the runic letter T used in Old English and Middle English to represent either of the fricatives \\th\\ or \\??\\ and in Icelandic to represent \\th\\
- 4. something that causes distress or irritation — often used in the phrase thorn in one's side
- ? thorned adjective
- ? thornless adjective
- ? thornlike adjective