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thorn

/thawrn/US // θɔrn //UK // (θɔːn) //

带刺的,带刺,有刺的,带刺儿的

Related Words

point点,地点,指点,观点spine脊柱,脊梁骨,脊背,脊椎骨nettle荨麻,荨麻疹,荨麻疹的治疗,小荨麻barb倒钩,倒刺,倒勾,钩子bramble藟,树莓,荆棘,荆棘丛生thistle蓟草,奶蓟草,薊圖案,草莓brier枯草,枯枝,枯叶,干燥剂spur刺激,刺激性,刺激性的splint夹板,夾板,胶合剂prickle皮刺,皮条客,皮疹,刺痛

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to prick with a thorn; vex.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounprickle
Synonyms
barb倒钩,倒刺,倒勾,钩子bramble藟,树莓,荆棘,荆棘丛生brier枯草,枯枝,枯叶,干燥剂nettle荨麻,荨麻疹,荨麻疹的治疗,小荨麻point点,地点,指点,观点spine脊柱,脊梁骨,脊背,脊椎骨thistle蓟草,奶蓟草,薊圖案,草莓
nounspike
Synonyms
brier枯草,枯枝,枯叶,干燥剂prickle皮刺,皮条客,皮疹,刺痛spine脊柱,脊梁骨,脊背,脊椎骨splint夹板,夾板,胶合剂spur刺激,刺激性,刺激性的

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.

  • 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.

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