prickly shrub
Example Sentences
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As she lowered herself to the ground, a prickly shrub grazed her thigh, and she jumped like a shot to her feet.
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2011
She looked down at the chain of great jewels, and the fragment of prickly shrub with its poppy-shaped yellow flower.
From The Sleuth of St. James's Square by Post, Melville Davisson
And I beckoned him across the room to the window that overlooked a stiff prickly shrub.
From Uncle Max by Carey, Rosa Nouchette
It is a prickly shrub, severe enough, but nothing to compare to catbriars, or even to the hollies of Southern Jersey.—H.W.H.
From The Dog by Dinks
The Gooseberry.—The gooseberry probably derives its name from gorse or goss, a prickly shrub that grows wild in thickets and on hillsides in Europe, Asia, and America.
From Science in the Kitchen. by Kellogg, Mrs. E. E.
