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What is the noun for thorned?

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thorn
  1. (botany) A sharp protective spine of a plant.
  2. (botany) Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns.
  3. A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English thigh
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    1. “The constant distractions during the meeting were a thorn in his side, preventing him from focusing on the task at hand.”
      “Roses will always have thorns, but with care they can be avoided.”
      “The thorn bushes surrounding the garden were a deterrent to would-be trespassers.”
thorniness
  1. The property of being thorny (of having thorns or metaphorically being difficult).
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    1. “Numerous studies have shown, however, that prickliness, spinesence or thorniness decreases with increasing height in the crown.”
      “Brash dissonances dissolve into invitingly harmonized passages, which then climb back toward thorniness.”
      “Avid moviegoers should be singing the director's praises from the rooftops for daring to thrash out the matter in all its imperfect, dark thorniness.”
thornbush
  1. Any of many thorny or spiny shrubs and bushes.
  2. Examples:
    1. “To the right Moses in front of the burning thornbush, to the left Moses on Sinai receiving the tables of the Law.”
      “Pentuer directed the prince to look at a distant hill, on the summit of which was a thornbush.”
      “All parks in these countries preserve representative woodland, thornbush, grassland, and succulent-desert habitats and species.”
thornery
  1. (dated, rare) A plantation of thorny plants.
thornproofs
  1. (dated) Thornproof trousers.
thorninesses
thornbushes
  1. plural of thornbush
thorneries
  1. plural of thornery
thorns
  1. plural of thorn
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    1. “Traces of thorns can be observed on the surface of the distal part of all rays.”
      “It peeked beyond the brushes of the thorns that surrounded the dark enchanted lands of Ardor.”
      “They're very tough and soaked in paraffin, like English Barbour coats, so they're very water-repellent and won't snag on thorns.”
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