Christ's-thorn: alternatives and connections

A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.

A race of giants living in Palestine.

Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs.

Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.

any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines

A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.

A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

A genus of plants (Ruscus); esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.

A prickly plant of the genus Carlina (C. vulgaris), found in Europe and Asia.

The bean or seed of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi.)

A mild cathartic oil, expressed or extracted from the seeds of the Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil is inodorous…

An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.

A coarse, composite weed, having a rough or prickly fruit; one of several species of the genus Xanthium; -- called also clotbur.

The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer o…

A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhabb.

A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is…

A native or inhabitant of Galilee, the northern province of Palestine under the Romans.

Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is…