英语释义
1. a sharp rigid process on a plant especially one that is a short, indurated, sharp-pointed, and leafless modified stem — compare prickle, spine
2. any of various sharp spinose structures on an animal
3. a woody plant bearing sharp impeding processes (such as prickles or spines) especially hawthorn
4. something that causes distress or irritation —often used in the phrase thorn in one's side
5. the runic letter t used in Old English and Middle English to represent either of the fricatives \th\ or \t?h\ and in Icelandic to represent \th\
6. a hard sharp leafless point on the stem or branch of a plant (as a rose bush)
7. a bush or tree that has thorns