thorny
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4.2
- adjective
- /ˈθɔrni/
:
espinoso
- While walking through the garden, I accidentally brushed against a thorny bush and got pricked.
- thorny shrubs
But if you, if black rhinos go extinct, the food that they eat, the shrubbery, the, the thorny bushes will overtake, you know, the ecosystem.
- But if you, if black rhinos go extinct, the food that they eat, the shrubbery, the, the thorny bushes will overtake, you know, the ecosystem.
Examples
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The outcries of the king as he bumped into trees and crashed through thorny thickets faded with distance.
Fiction book (2000) -
The landscapes where Harris' hawks thrive are often choked with mats of thorny shrubs intermixed with a spattering of dwarfish trees.
Academic text (1990) -
The soldiers made a crown out of thorny branches... and put it on his head.
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As I sat in my blind, I knew there were animals around me in the thick, thorny brush.
Academic text (2005) -
He'd wear a smile while he wore a thorny crown
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Rama approached the thorny palace...
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A bouquet of English roses, red and thorny.
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Using his hands, the man cautiously pushed back the thorny branches that obstructed his view of the plain.
Fiction book (1995) -
Wild multiflora roses are considered a nuisance by hunters who have to trudge through the thorny plants.
Academic text (2004) -
The thorny brambles made it difficult for the hikers to find a way through the dense forest.
Synonyms
14
3.3
Covered with sharp points like thorns that can hurt to touch
6
4.4
A thing with sharp points like wire or animal spines that can hurt and catch on things
3
3.9
Covered with sharp points or thorns that can hurt you
1
4.6
Covered with short, stiff hairs that feel rough
1
9.0
Having sharp pointed parts like thorns that protect a plant or animal
Having sharp, pointed parts that can prick the skin
A thing with sharp pointed parts like thorns
Covered with many small sharp points like spines
Covered with many small sharp hooks that stick to clothes or fur
Having small prickles that stick to clothes or fur
Covered with stiff, sharp spines like a porcupine
Having sharp, pointed parts like quills or thorns on the body
Having small sharp spines or thorns on the surface
Covered with many short stiff hairs or small sharp points
Having many short stiff hairs like those on a brush
Having many short stiff hairs like bristles
Having many small hooks or bristles that stick to clothes
Having small sharp points that can hurt your skin
A plant or plant part with a sharp thorn at the tip
Full of thorny plants that can prick you
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A plant that grows upright and lives one year with pairs of sharp spines at many leaf joints
How Thorny
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Thorny comes from the old English word thorn, meaning 'a sharp point on a plant', plus -y, meaning 'full of'. So a thorny plant is literally 'full of thorns' and can scratch or hurt you.