thorns
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
thorny (problem) / intractable
ratchet
thistles and thorns / brambles / thorny undergrowth
thorny problem / troublesome affair
echinoderm, the phylum containing sea urchins, sea cucumbers etc
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its duck-billed snout
lit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom) / fig. to overcome all obstacles on the way / to break through hardships / to blaze a new trail
(botany) sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides)
coelacanth
lit. a path covered in brambles / a course of action beset by difficulties (idiom)
to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom) / to share the hard life of the common people
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