Definitions
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Word origin
From Middle English thorny, þorny, þorni, from Old English þorniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þornag. By surface analysis, thorn + -y.
Used in a sentence
“Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.”
“thorny issues”
“the steep and thorny way to heaven”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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