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Christ Thorn

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Noun

1. christ plant, christ thorn, crown of thorns, euphorbia milii

somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Christ Thorn

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noun
1. 
a thorny euphorbiaceous Madagascan shrub, Euphorbia milii var. splendens, cultivated as a hedging shrub or pot plant, having flowers with scarlet bracts
2.  another name for crown-of-thorns (sense 2)
noun
any of several rhamnaceous plants of SW Asia, such as Paliurus spina-christi or the jujube, that have thorny stems and are popularly believed to have been used for Christ's Crown of Thorns

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Christ Thorn

see synonyms of christ thorn
noun
an Old World spiny shrub (Paliurus spina-christi) of the buckthorn family, supposed to have been used for Christ's crown of thorns

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Christ Thorn

see synonyms of christ thorn
n.
1. Either of two similar and related Old World spiny shrubs (Ziziphus spina-christi or Paliurus spina-christi) popularly believed to have been used for Jesus's crown of thorns.
2. Any of several other plants, such as the crown-of-thorns.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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