Definition of Thornbushes

1. Noun. (plural of thornbush) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thornbushes

1. thornbush [n] - See also: thornbush

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thornbushes

thorn-headed
thorn apple
thorn apple crystals
thorn in someone's side
thorn in the flesh
thornapple
thornapples
thornasite
thornback
thornbacks
thornbill
thornbills
thornbird
thornbirds
thornbushes (current term)
thornbut
thorned
thornen
thornfish
thornfishes
thornhog
thorninesses
thorning
thornless
thornlike

Literary usage of Thornbushes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"... and dressed her child in patchwork therefrom ; and the wool left on the thornbushes by the sheep was regularly gleaned, spun, and then sent to some ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1908)
"... and of the parties, the}' went round the above-named places and marked them with stakes and stones on the shore in five places from the thornbushes ..."

3. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1893)
"when the meadows •were yellow with the crowfoot, flushed with the sorrel, or purple with clover ; the thornbushes, white or pink with their blossoms ..."

4. The Travels of Ludovico Di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and by Lodovico de Varthema, John Winter Jones, George Percy Badger (1863)
"... there were six or eight feet of beautiful thornbushes, in which we found two turtledoves, which circumstance appeared to us like a miracle, ..."

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