Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given in the northwestern parts of the United States to the prickly araliaceous plant Fatsia horrida.
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Examples
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Further, there was mention made of a steep hill, thick with briers and devil's-club, and she fetched heavy moccasins to make the way easy for my feet.
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Coastal western hemlock and sitka spruce occur along the western and southern edges of the park, mixed with black cottonwood Populus sp. and sitka alder along streams and beach fringes, and an understorey of moss, blueberry Vaccinium sp. devil's-club Oplopanax horridus, skunk cabbage and ferns.
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My coat and shoes were gone, torn from me in the rapids, and I walked blindly into snares of broken and pronged branches, trod tangles of blackberry, and more than once my foot was pierced by the barbs of a devil's-club.
The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson
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There was trillium, too, although it was not in bloom, and devil's-club, a plant which stings and sets up a painful swelling.
Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Further, there was mention made of a steep hill, thick with briers and devil's-club, and she fetched heavy moccasins to make the way easy for my feet.
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We were still in the region of ferns and devil's-club.
The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Hamlin Garland 1900
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A part of the time that evening we spent in picking the thorns of devil's-club out of our hands.
The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Hamlin Garland 1900
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"You'll see devil's-club aplenty before you get done with this trip," said he.
The Young Alaskans in the Rockies Emerson Hough 1890
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The going was the worst imaginable, the forest being full of devil's-club and alder, and the course -- for path or trail there was none -- often leading directly across the trunk of some great tree over which none of the boys could climb unassisted.
The Young Alaskans in the Rockies Emerson Hough 1890
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Dense alders and thickets of devil's-club also opposed them, so that they were at a loss to see how any one could make his way through such a country as this, and were glad enough to reach even the inhospitable pathway of their mountain river and to take to the boats again.
The Young Alaskans in the Rockies Emerson Hough 1890
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