prickly shrub
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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
A prickly shrub, from five to ten feet high, growing wild in this country and in Europe, on poor, hard soils, or in moist situations, by walls, stones, or fences.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
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 Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
Here and there a stunted, grey, prickly shrub struggles to live, and just manages not to die.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Alexander Maclaren
I ploughed my way through deep sand, or stepped from boulder to boulder, or crushed through miles of sea-holly and prickly shrub.
From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham
