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English
Noun
thorn-tree
- Alternative form of thorn tree
1830, Thomas Robson, The British Herald; Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, from the Earliest to the Present Time , page 10:Thornthwaite [Cumb.] per pale, ar. and gu. a chev. betw. three lions' heads, erased, all counterchanged ; on a chief or, a thorn-tree ppr. —Crest, a lion's head, erased, gu. in the mouth a thorn-sprig vert, fructed ppr.
1880, Sidney Lanier, A Ballad of Trees and the Master, lines 5–8:But the olives they were not blind to Him, / The little gray leaves were kind to Him: / The thorn-tree had a mind to Him / When into the woods He came. […]
1892, John Burroughs, “The Scarlet Thorn”, in St. Nicholas, volume 19, number 2:Every country boy and girl knows the thorn-tree, with its mass of white bloom in May and mass of red fruit in the fall.