thorn 的 2 个定义
- 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.
- (5)
- to prick with a thorn; vex.
thorn 近义词
prickle
spike
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- 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.
- He lay motionless in her lap, until the thorn suddenly let go and lay in Jess' hand.
- Then she held the soft paw firmly with her left hand, and pulled steadily on the thorn with her right hand.
- She received the infection on a part of the hand which had been previously in a slight degree injured by a scratch from a thorn.