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noun • Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips • a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries • evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes • a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath | ||||||||
| 45% | 9 | Cutting hedges optional — sense avoiding the thorny bits? | ||||||
adjective satellite • tending to select; characterized by careful choice • characterized by very careful or fastidious selection | ||||||||
| 37% | 9 | Thorny hedges often found along country lanes | ||||||
noun • a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus | ||||||||
Thorny Plant Often Found In Hedges
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15 Sep 1982 | New York Times / 15 Sep 1982 |
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20 Jul 1978 | New York Times / 20 Jul 1978 |
