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Thorny Plant Crossword Clue

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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

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noun

• any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

• pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began

• a dusty pink color

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• of something having a dusty purplish pink color

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noun

• tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber

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New York Times19 Sep 2019 Down 7
New York Times03 May 1992 Across 130
New York Times15 Sep 1982 Across 68
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