thornbush
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of thornbush
Example Sentences
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With herds diminished, thornbush shrubs flourished, providing a perfect home for the tsetse flies that carried sleeping sickness.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
The spiky thornbush, nature’s barbed wire, provides protection until the sapling has stretched higher than the browse line.
From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2019
So each big messy thornbush is a live nursery for a baby oak, and this field of low scrub will be dotted with massive trees in a half-century.
From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2019
The baby takes off but begins to totter and stumble, burying his nose — and tiny horns — in a thornbush.
From Time • Jun. 11, 2011
I dig a beetle larva out of a decaying log and put it on a thornbush fishhook I made and tied to a fine cord of deer tendon.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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