thorned
English
Verb
thorned
- simple past tense and past participle of thorn
Adjective
thorned (comparative more thorned, superlative most thorned)
- containing thorns
- 1914, John Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete:
- A prickly bindweed (the Smilax Sarsaparilla) forms a feature in the near landscape, with its creamy odoriferous blossoms, coral berries, and glossy thorned leaves.
- 1863, Various, The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863:
- In these we always find that the thorned holly is spoken of as male, and the Ivy as female.
- 1990 January 19, James Krohe Jr., “Green Streets”, in Chicago Reader:
- In its native form the branches of the honey locust are thorned and bear seed pods up to a foot long.
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Anagrams
- droneth, northed, throned