Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from thorns.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of, or free from, thorns.
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- adjective Without
thorns .
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- adjective lacking thorns
Etymologies
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Examples
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Prickly wild brambles can be tamed by whacking back the edges of the thicket twice a year, and modern cultivated varieties such as thornless 'Triple Crown' blackberry make great thickets, too.
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I did have a ‘Zepherine Drouhin, ’known for its thornless qualities and its ability to take some shade, but it only blooms once a year — for a week or two in the spring — and then it gets heavily infected with black spot.
‘Abraham Darby’ goes out with a bang « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009
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If it is a love at first sight, then a thornless rose or lavender rose will speak of your complete surrender.
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Look for apples, pears, blackberries (thornless), red raspberries, watermelon and turnips, according to Leslie Hart, an agricultural marketing specialist for the Washington County extension office.
In Season: August 2010
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Over the last few years, disease-resistant single-flowered roses have been introduced, including 'Kew Gardens', a white thornless variety that flowers nonstop.
Gardens: Roses - A modern romance Hazel Sillver 2010
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Down here on the bottom there were no trees; but many formal gardens -- rather, a single, reticulated one, interwoven with the houses and the towers -- held beds of Terran violets and thornless roses, native jule and sunbloom and baleflower and much else which Raven didn't recognize.
do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010
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In early May, the cerise-pink flowers of "Zephirine Drouhin" open on almost thornless stems.
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A week ago Virginia took me back to the nursery and I bought a small thornless blackberry bush and some more soil, seeds, and containers.
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Four years ago I planted three 3, yes 3 small thornless raspberry canes in my backyard along the edge of a raised bed.
Archive 2009-07-01 Michelle 2009
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Cacti and thorny shrubs are conspicuous, but many thornless shrubs and herbs are also present.
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