(n.) A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.
(n.) A species of Crataegus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both are used for hedges.
Example Sentences:
(1) The route from the hospital runs along the base of the Downs, where the blackthorn has already sprung in the sunshine.
(2) The sea has turned the quarries into lagoons, while long grasses, wild fuchsia and blackthorn have covered what the sea cannot penetrate.
(3) Where it has hopped and run and suckered its way along the verges the blackthorn has formed cages that protect an inner world of primroses.
(4) We sat in the Subaru, Prideaux discussing HS2’s destruction of his huge blackthorn hedges, a relic of the hunting forest, and the rare butterflies and bats that depend on them.
(5) A Havant council spokesman said the mini-tornado is believed to have caused damage to properties in Blackthorn Road and Ilex Walk, although no injuries had been reported.
(6) Most people think of the island and think of Cowes Week and the festival but we’ve also got 28% child poverty levels.” Jack Hickey: ‘Just throwing money at problems doesn’t always solve them’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest A primary school teacher, Hickey qualified two years ago and has taught at Blackthorn academy in Northampton since last October.
(7) I crawled through spiky blackthorn scrub to escape: the wildest place I encountered in central England was an old railway.
(8) The blackthorn that hunkers into the tufted grassland has been held in readiness, and over the week I have watched the buds swell in their leafless transition from dormancy.
(9) Beech, field maple, hawthorn, hazel, horse chestnut, ivy and sycamore and blackthorn have all done well.
(10) Prosecutors questioned Humphrey over the alleged tailing of a target during a past operation called Operation Blackthorn, in which he investigated the general manager of a Finnish company for fraud.
(11) A seven-year-old boy fell against a blackthorn bush and found that thorns had penetrated the skin over the left knee.
(12) Many different strains of rats and mice are bred at Blackthorn: some to be diabetic, others to be obese, for example.
(13) To enter its Blackthorn site, staff and visitors have to remove all clothing and jewellery, shower and then wear sterilised clothing, hair nets, masks and gloves, coated in anti-bacterial gel, to prevent the spread of human-borne pathogens.
(14) Blackthorn, which possesses very long spines, seems over-engineered to deter browsing by deer; but not, perhaps, rhinoceros.
(15) It is striking, formidable security but not unexpected – for this is Harlan Laboratories in Blackthorn, Oxfordshire, home to 52,000 rats and mice destined for use in medical experiments and the target of a sustained campaign of intimidation by animal activists.
(16) First the cherry plum to the blackthorn; next the balloon-shaped flowers of the pears; then the delicate sprays of amelanchier, which cross over with the flurry of cherries.
Thorn
Definition:
(n.) A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.
(n.) Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.
(n.) Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.
(n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.
(v. t.) To prick, as with a thorn.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the outspoken journalist and human rights activist has long been a thorn in Ali Abdullah Saleh's side, agitating for press freedoms and staging weekly sit-ins to demand the release of political prisoners from jail – a place she has been several times herself.
(2) Daballen navigates the jeep between thorn bushes and over furrows, guided by a rising moon and his intimate knowledge of the terrain.
(3) Adoption and fostering: ‘The best thing you have ever done’ Read more The process of adopting disabled children was much harder when she first did it in the 1980s, Thorn says, adding that people tended to be bemused as to why any parent would volunteer for the additional work involved in bringing up children with varying needs.
(4) Puncture wounds were cuased in 9 patients by sea urchin spines and 1 patient by a date palm thorn.
(5) Supporters said they were not surprised she had been let go as she had become “a thorn in the flesh” of the DfE after speaking out against government policies.
(6) The call by Denmark’s prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, for the country to stand together echoes the Norwegian response after the massacre at Utøya .
(7) Sperm motion was analysed using the Hamilton-Thorn system before and after incubation and treatment.
(8) Three cases are reported in which pseudotumours developed in the hand following injury by oil palm thorns.
(9) Since becoming Denmark's first female prime minister two years ago, Thorning-Schmidt has had to contend with the media nickname of "Gucci Helle", so called because of her fondness for designer clothes.
(10) Wyden and Udall have been thorns in the side of the intelligence community, using their position on the committee, which permits them privileged access to classified briefings, to repeatedly challenge senior officials on the accuracy of their public testimony.
(11) He said police reports in Sweden showed SW had told a friend, Marie Thorn, that she felt police and others around her "railroaded her" into pressing charges.
(12) Although reviewers' letters may be considered an unnecessary thorn in the side, the improved practice that has resulted from these efforts gives strong support to their continued activities.
(13) In layers V and VI they mainly contact with the dendrite trunks and with the nervous cell bodies and more rarely with thorns.
(14) They gradually displayed active membrane pseudopodia, thorn-like processes and petal-like ruffles after 2 h to 4 h of cultivation.
(15) Other names circulating in EU capitals for the top commission job include the Irish prime minister, Enda Kenny, the outgoing Finnish prime minister on the centre-right, Jyrki Katainen, and the Danish prime minister on the centre-left, Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
(16) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
(17) Synovectomy and removal of the plant thorn usually results in normal joint function.
(18) But, as Aimee Thorne-Thomsen, the vice president for strategic partnerships at Advocates for Youth, wrote in 2010 , rather than focus on if abortion is rare enough to make enough people comfortable, "What if we stopped focusing on the number of abortions and instead focused on the women themselves?"
(19) One teacher, who was hiding in a closet in the math lab, heard Thorne yell, "Put the gun down!"
(20) Based on a correlative radiographic and histologic slab study of the wrists in 50 infants who died of unrelated diseases, the author's chief conclusions are as follow: 1) On the wrist radiograph of the infant, bone bark in the Ranvier's groove may appear as a "thorn-like" bony process on the margins of the metaphysis of the radius and ulna.