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
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
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 Maclaren, Alexander
A common defence against these unwelcome intruders is to cover the roofs with a certain prickly shrub, the thorns of which command respect even from monkeys.
From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various
Bramble, bram′bl, n. a wild prickly shrub bearing blackberries, a blackberry bush: any rough prickly shrub.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
