Usually means: Sharp, pointed spine on plants.
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  1. thorn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thorn: Merriam-Webster
  3. Thorn, thorn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. thorn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. thorn: Collins English Dictionary
  6. thorn: Vocabulary.com
  7. Thorn, thorn: Wordnik
  8. thorn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Thorn, thorn: Wiktionary
  10. thorn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. thorn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. thorn: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. thorn: Dictionary.com
  14. thorn: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. thorn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Thorn (EP), The Thorn, Thorn (Inheritance), Thorn (Marvel Comics), Thorn (Netherlands), Thorn (Tang Dynasty album), Thorn (botany), Thorn (comic strip), Thorn (comics), Thorn (dog), Thorn (letter), Thorn (organization), Thorn (surname), Thorn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Thorn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. thorn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. thorn: Rhymezone
  20. thorn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. thorn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Thorn: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. thorn: FreeDictionary.org
  24. thorn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. thorn: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. thorn: Mnemonic Dictionary

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  1. Thorn: Dictionary of Symbolism

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  1. thorn: Encyclopedia

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  3. thorn: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Thorn: Easton Bible

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Thorn: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (botany) A sharp protective spine of a plant.
noun:  Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
noun:  (figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
noun:  A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
verb:  To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object).
noun:  A topographic surname from Middle English for someone living near a thorn bush.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A hamlet in Houghton Regis parish, Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL0024).
noun:  A village in Maasgouw municipality, Limburg province, Netherlands.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, United States.
noun:  Former name of Whitethorn, Humboldt County, California.

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