THORN: значение слова

noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German dorn thorn, Sanskrit tṛṇa grass, blade of grass Date: before 12th century a woody plant bearing sharp impeding processes (as prickles or spines),

2. a sharp rigid process on a plant, any of various sharp spinose structures on an animal, the runic letter Þ used in Old English and Middle English to represent either of the fricatives \\th\\ or \\ṯẖ\\ and in Icelandic to represent \\th\\, something that causes distress or irritation, thorned adjective thornless adjective thornlike adjective