Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various shrubs or bushes having thorns or spines.
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- noun Any of many
thorny orspiny shrubs andbushes .
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Examples
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I felt like the place was telling me to go to a thornbush, so I went and sat under it.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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I felt like the place was telling me to go to a thornbush, so I went and sat under it.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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They peeled off the main road onto a dirt track that cut into a mass of thornbush and creeping triffid weed.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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He rolled, bouncing from one outcrop to the next, until he managed to fling out an arm and grab on to a scrubby thornbush.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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"Great," said Welly, sitting by the thornbush cooking fire with all the others of the tribe.
Who Do You Say I Am 2010
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Moving quickly, two more of the soldiers in the courtyard jammed onto his skull a cap they had formed from a thornbush growing in the courtyard.
The Shroud Codex Ph.D Jerome R. Corsi 2010
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He rolled, bouncing from one outcrop to the next, until he managed to fling out an arm and grab on to a scrubby thornbush.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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He rolled, bouncing from one outcrop to the next, until he managed to fling out an arm and grab on to a scrubby thornbush.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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As they floated after Tally, scraping past girders and jagged chunks of concrete, Aya and Frizz collected scratches like they were crawling through a thornbush.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010
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They peeled off the main road onto a dirt track that cut into a mass of thornbush and creeping triffid weed.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
wytukaze commented on the word thornbush
Also listed at thorn-bush.
November 13, 2008