Толковый словарь английского языка - thorn
Thorn
thorn
noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German dorn ~, Sanskrit tṛṇa grass, blade of grass Date: before 12th century a woody plant bearing sharp impeding processes (as prickles or spines), 2. a sharp rigid process on a plant, any of various sharp spinose structures on an animal, the runic letter Þ used in Old English and Middle English to represent either of the fricatives th or ṯẖ and in Icelandic to represent th, something that causes distress or irritation, ~ed adjective ~less adjective ~like adjective
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n. 1 a stiff sharp-pointed projection on a plant. 2 a thorn-bearing shrub or tree. 3 the name of an Old English and Icelandic runic letter, = th. Phrases and idioms on thorns continuously uneasy esp. in fear of being detected. thorn-apple 1 a poisonous plant of the nightshade family, Datura stramonium. 2 the prickly fruit of this. a thorn in one's flesh (or side) a constant annoyance. Derivatives thornless adj. thornproof adj. Etymology: OE f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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