thornbush

[ thawrn-boosh ]

noun

1. any of various shrubs or bushes having spines or thorns.

Word History and Origins

Origin of thornbush¹

1300–50; Middle English. See thorn, bush ¹

Example Sentences

A thornbush where fairies meet is a 'gentle bush': the hazel and the foxglove (fairy-thimble) are gentle plants.

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Jack had just made this discovery when he noticed something fluttering from a thornbush.

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He pointed to the ragged remains of Astro's jungle suit dangling on the near-by thornbush.

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Pentuer directed the prince to look at a distant hill, on the summit of which was a thornbush.

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That of the lamb which was found in the thornbush and placed upon the altar.

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