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nature's barbed wire, grown by plants too polite to throw a punch
means A thorn is a sharp, stiff, woody point growing on a plant stem, evolved to deter animals from eating or trampling it.
from From Old English 'thorn,' which traveled down from a Proto-Germanic root (compare German 'Dorn' and Dutch 'doorn'), itself reaching back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to pierce.' The word so embodied sharpness that the early English even named a letter after it: the runic-derived character þ, called 'thorn,' which once stood for the 'th' sound — a prickly little glyph that survives today only in faux-archaic spellings like 'Ye Olde Shoppe,' where that 'Y' is really a misread thorn.
- not a thorn
- rose prickles are technically not thorns at all
- old letter
- thorn was once a letter in English
- deep purpose
- discourages grazing animals from eating the plant
- botanical origin
- true thorns are modified stems, not skin growths
crown of thorns — christian relic claimed to be from jesus's crucifixion, housed in notre-dame cathedral, paris
thorn in my side — paul's biblical complaint in 2 corinthians 12:7 about an unnamed affliction or adversary