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(botany) A sharp protective spine of a plant. / Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn. / (figuratively) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
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Source Word
thorn
IPA(Pronunciation)
Noun
figuratively
Japanese Meaning
植物の鋭い防御用のとげ。 / 特にサンザシなど、とげを持つ低木や小木。 / 比喩的に、悩ませるものや煩わしいもの。
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A
letter
of
Latin
script
(capital:
Þ,
small:
þ),
borrowed
from
the
futhark;
today
used
only
in
Icelandic
to
represent
the
voiceless
dental
fricative,
but
originally
used
in
several
early
Germanic
scripts,
including
Old
English
where
it
represented
the
dental
fricatives
that
are
today
written
th
(Old
English
did
not
have
phonemic
voicing
distinctions
for
fricatives).
（ plural ）
