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Rank | Letters | Answer | Clue | |
1 | 99% | 5 | Exact Match! | |
2 | 27% | 10 | Can have both thorny and non-thorny varieties | |
3 | 21% | 7 | More thorny | |
Thorny Twig Crossword Clue
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We think the answer is "BRIAR" which means:
- 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
An example sentence would be:
- • "I got a splinter from the briar bush."
- • "The briar tangled around my ankles as i walked through the forest."
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