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
A common defence against these unwelcome intruders is to cover the roofs with a certain prickly shrub, the thorns of which command respect even from monkeys.
From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various
Gorse, gors, n. a prickly shrub growing on waste places, the furze or whin.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
The Gooseberry.—The gooseberry probably derives its name from gorse or goss, a prickly shrub that grows wild in thickets and on hillsides in Europe, Asia, and America.
From Science in the Kitchen. by Kellogg, Mrs. E. E.
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
