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

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

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

The only way to keep them off, is to cover the roof with a prickly shrub, the thorns of which stick to the flesh like fishhooks.

From Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals by Weir, Harrison

After three hours they reached a plain of alternating sand and rocks, where nothing grew except some prickly shrub.

From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William