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

There was a great deal, too, of a very uncomfortable prickly shrub, which they call Irishman, and which I do not like the look of at all.

From A First Year in Canterbury Settlement by Butler, Samuel

She looked down at the chain of great jewels, and the fragment of prickly shrub with its poppy-shaped yellow flower.

From The Sleuth of St. James's Square by Post, Melville Davisson

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

I met with nothing remarkable here excepting a prickly shrub called by the natives Andalimon, the seed-vessels and leaves of which have a very agreeable spicy taste, and are used by them in their curries.

From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William