English Dictionary

thorn

IPA（発音記号）

/θɔːn/

名詞

比喩的用法

(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.

日本語の意味

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。

I pricked my finger on a rose thorn while arranging the bouquet.

花束を作っているときにバラのとげで指を刺してしまった。

意味（1）

(botany) A sharp protective spine of a plant.

意味（2）

Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.

the white thorn

意味（3）

(figuratively) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.

There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.

意味（4）

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).

See also Etymology of ye (definite article).

thorns （ plural ）