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Hang On Its A Thorny Plant Crossword Clue

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28%6Thorny desert plant
noun

• any succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World and usually having spines

28%5Thorny plant
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

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