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Examples of thorn


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However, experiments in which crown of thorns larvae have been suspended in cages in various parts of the tropical ocean have not supported this idea.
Care is taken to leave the thorns intact, and the thick end of the stalk is broken off.
None of the studied plant species had spines or thorns.
In this literature, it is rare to find some roses blooming amongst the thorns of negative case studies.
The major defensive mechanisms of acacia are mechanical (thorns) or qualitative-defence chemicals (cyanogenic glucosides) that are apparently more effective against vertebrate than invertebrate herbivores.
Certainly thorn trees occur along leys, and planting is a way of establishing a mark with relatively little effort.
In front of its trading store lie the remains of what was once an enormous camel thorn tree.
At the end of the arm is what looks like a tiny lollipop with a pointy thorn at the centre.
Their thin wavy dendrites were covered with characteristic, fine, thorn-like protrusions.
However, their dendrites are profusely branching with many thorn-like varicosities densely filling the area of arborization.
Considering we didn't have a refrigerator, all meals on uncomfortable humid days were prepared outside under the familiar shade of a thorn tree.
A co-wife in feminine vocabulary was a thorn in one's side (satin kanta).
The garlands of roses that come to them to-day, perhaps, are not wholly without thorns.
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The fences should be of birch instead of thorns.
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I can tell him that that was one of the thorns in my flesh.
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About one-third of these are small trees such as thorns.
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They are no longer with us, unfortunately, to act as thorns in the flesh of the unrighteous.
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There are other thorns to be driven into trade union flesh.
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I only hope that the thorns do not cause too many punctures along the way!
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The workers of my country are finding only thorns, and resting on thorns is not very easy.
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Your idea is to get rid of the thorns.
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Every interference is liable to produce its crown of thorns.
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There are many problems, many thorns in this particular bed of roses.
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I quite understand that it was full of thorns.
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Heavy pruning can have two results, but certainly we could end up with a plant which has many more thorns than flowers.
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One cannot make a crown of thorns into a jubilee crown.
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The path to success lies strewn with thorns, and those who would grasp her by the hand must be prepared to make sacrifices.
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Then there is land which is covered with thick thorns, brambles, sorrel, moss and weeds where once corn grew, as you can see from the marks of the furrows.
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They are the thorns in their flesh.
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I feel myself to be, if not a rose between two thorns, at any rate the representative of a constituency which has the problem upon both sides.
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He merits neither a crown of thorns nor a laurel wreath.
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If you are going to pluck success, it will be like plucking honey out of thorns, and the utmost skill and care is needed for that.
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If he does, then when eventually he leaves office he may go out with a crown of glory instead of the thorns we are at present heaping on his head.
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The rose has its thorns.
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He would often swoon when contemplating the crown of thorns, in particular, and, during these states, it is said he would levitate or bilocate.
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The vines in this area hung like ropes between the trees, and some of them boasted thorns three inches (76 mm) long.
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Significant cases have stems and particularly thorns, infected.
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In movement 2 he uses the image of a rose with thorns to illustrate two conflicting aspects.
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Larger individuals additionally have numerous tall, sharp thorns over the entire upper surface of the disc.
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Love is like a rose - beautiful, but there are thorns.
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The bucklers vary in size, with the largest of equal diameter to the eye, and may bear up to three thorns each.
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The poisonous caterpillars are chocolate-brown, with white or brown protrusions resembling thorns.
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Under some circumstances, a rope with attached thorns or obsidian flakes would be pulled through the tongue or earlobes.
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The tree, which has thorns, can reach 5 m in height.
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The snout is broad-based, abruptly tapering to a protruding sharp point and covered with small, sharp thorns.
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Obtains enlarged thorns on snout, and not back.
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The suckers have small thorns in their inner part as well as in the buttons around them.
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The beautiful flowers have become thorns, the once-happy landscape now a barren wasteland.
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They mine the stem and thorns of their host plant.
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She expresses the hope that her successor will wear a crown of thorns.
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There is a distinctive band of larger thorns running along the midline of the back, from the nape to the caudal peduncle.
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A row of thorns runs along the midline of the back, but there are no venomous spines.
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The stems are hairless and sometimes waxy in texture, and some of the lateral branches may be sharply angled and reduced in size, becoming thorns.
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The edges of the leaves are entire and are lined with spiny, tooth-like, brown-red thorns.
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The disc is nearly circular and its dorsal surface is covered in dermal denticles, tubercles, and thorns.
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The branches, leaves and fruit are covered with small thorns.
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He slides down wincing as hundreds of thorns break off and lands on a skeleton of a bull.
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He stands on a platform made of thorns, staring up at the woman in awe, a hand clutching at his heart.
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Plant has large number of small fruits near thorns.
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The image of the crown of thorns is often used symbolically to contrast with earthly monarchical crowns.
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What few plants there are typically covered with thorns and live low to the ground.
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The thorns were attached to this braided circle, which measures 21 centimetres in diameter.
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Dorsal and ventral surfaces of the disc are uniformly covered with dermal denticles, but lack thorns on the disc.
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You must take thorns from the foot of people with your eyelash.
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Do you: gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
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The dry thorn blossomed, and bare roses that were redder than rubies.
The trunk and many of the larger branches are often (but not always) crowded with very large, robust simple thorns.
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Thorns are aligned in straight pairs at nodes.
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They mine the stems and thorns of their host plant.
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Kyuu compares her to a rose, stating she is covered in thorns.
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Extra special care is needed to cut around the leaves and thorns that may scratch the fruit.
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The dragon and the thorns ward off many men though, who decide it is better to avoid pain than to be given immortality.
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In the middle of thorns and adverse hatred, blooms their love.
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A very distinctive feature of this species is the way it grows its thorns in opposite pairs, at perfect right angles on the branch.
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Outside of snake country, bird hunters often wear upland chaps made of waxed cotton or nylon to protect their legs from briars and thorns.
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The branches are few and covered by slender thorns up to 30 cm long.
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Now the metaphors are only weakly presented "the thorns of life" (l. 54).
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The grave was marked with a tall oak cross with the crown of thorns.
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The branches have only small hair - like thorns, having lost the need for defensive thorns, until grazing mammals were brought in.
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Small individuals have a row of thorns down the middle of the back.
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The thorns of the dorsal fin are venomous.
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He was placed in a wagon covered with thorns and transported to exile.
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The larvae are dark brown, with long yellowish appendages similar to thorns.
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The lips, tongue, and inside of the mouth are covered in papillae to protect against thorns.
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When several puppets are stationary on the screen at the same time, they are pinned to the screen with date palm thorns.
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The dacha, once described as a temple of the rosebush with no thorns, was later abandoned, sold to private owners and demolished in 1851.
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At rare intervals they leave their thorns to occupy new ones.
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The younger stems bear sharp thorns, 1 to 1.5 cm long.
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The twigs harden into sharp-tipped thorns as they age.
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The seeds contain from one to numerous thorns and the size of the seed head can range from 6 to 10 inches.
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The thorns are interspersed with cactuses and pine, fig, olive and mulberry trees.
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Hira is both without water or vegetation other than a few thorns.
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The ornate coat-of-arms with its ceremonial crests contrasts with the simple statement of identity of the three thorns on the tomb chest.
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A thin thorn fence was set up round the structure to keep out domestic animals.
Parts of the stem are covered in thorns which can be up to 8 cm long.
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However, they soon harden, and the downward-pointing thorns help to hook the tendril onto its support - as well as providing defence.
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Among roses, it is closest to come to a thornless rose, with just a few thorns at the base.
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Their dendritic branching patterns were highly asymmetric with many thorn-like varicosities that profusely filled the area of arborization.
Their wide dendritic arbors branched simply, with some thorn-like projections.
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