thorn
شوكة
definition
noun
Roses ramble over walls, branches stiff with thorns and laden with huge blossoms.
a stiff, sharp-pointed, straight or curved woody projection on the stem or other part of a plant.
‘They threw me over the back of a camel and told me they would kill me if I cried,’ he said, sitting quietly under a thorn tree on the outskirts of Turalei.
a thorny bush, shrub, or tree, especially a hawthorn.
translation of 'thorn'
noun
شوك,
زعرور شجر شائك,
شوكة
example
the issue has become a 'thorn' in renewing the peace talks
However, that 'thorn' has yet to trouble the organisers, who are revitalising and expanding the event.
His visits to the shrine have been a 'thorn' that is increasingly irritating relations between the two countries.
the issue has become a 'thorn' in renewing the peace talks
I sit beside my flowering 'thorn' and drink a little wine.
In the autumn we intend to plant fruiting species of trees, including gelda rose, hawthorn, hazel, 'thorn' and snowberry.
Similarly, 'thorn' may represent either a voiceless or a voiced sound: compare the current use of the digraph th in three and these.
Jake is a big 'thorn' in this school.
Nearly all of the plant life protects itself with 'thorns' , barbs and needles.
Roses ramble over walls, branches stiff with 'thorns' and laden with huge blossoms.
The lions chased him, and savaged his leg before he fell into a 'thorn bush' too dense for them to reach him.
Certain plants have developed 'thorns' to prevent themselves from being devoured and they work equally well as deterrents for humans too.
While citrus grown from seed may come true - that is, be identical to the mother tree - many gardeners plant grafted trees to ensure a good-eating fruit, quicker production and a 'thornless' tree.
It is very difficult to miss this flower with its very vibrant orange leaves and dangerous 'thorns' .
Instead of a well-equipped school their children are taught beneath the shade of a 'thorn tree' .
I could've worn my jacket, it was quite 'thornproof' , but in that heat it just wasn't worth unrolling it.
The rural imagery is varied: the rising sap, meadows, individual plants, birds, a bedewed rose among its 'thorns' , storm, flood, and fair weather.
Due to the proposed similarity in function among 'thorns' , spines, and prickles, we will hereafter generically refer to all plants bearing them as armed.
Plants also possess a great diversity of physical resistance traits, such as spines and 'thorns' .
Experts have known for some time that cheetahs are particularly prone to eye injuries from 'thorns' and spikes.
The untrained eye cannot always distinguish between a blackberry and a raspberry, since the shapes and sizes of the fruit, leaves, and 'thorns' vary, and there are both red blackberries and black raspberries.
The undergrowth of 'thorns' and shrubs was bad enough, but in addition the whole place was chock-full of a sort of reed with long leaves about an inch or so broad.
A cosy 'thornproof' coat for winter wear and waterproof trousers for all the year are very handy.
I wish to draw everybody's attention to the great value of all established indigenous trees and of camel 'thorn trees' in particular.
Here in south Texas, where the mesquite brush and most other native plants have 'thorns' and where not a few critters have a mean bite, it helps to be tough.
Sweating on an assembly line, she strips 'thorns' from flowers bound for countries where people can afford such luxuries.
Her finger caught on one of the 'thorns' hidden beneath a leaf.
Workers spray rose bushes, harvest stems, strip them of 'thorns' and pluck the blemished petals.
It often forms dense thickets, and these are often thorny, since 'thornless' cultivars appear to retain genes for thorniness that may be expressed as genes recombine in their progeny.
While the species is thorny in its native habitat, many cultivars are 'thornless' , though not all.
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