Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having three thorns or a triple thorn.
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Examples
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The sweet, or honey, locust is another variety, which is also called the three-thorned acacia, because the thorns consist of one long spine with two shorter ones projecting out of it, like little branches, near its base.
Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church
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A flat and three-thorned blackthorn would lick the scholars out of Dublin town!
Act Three John Millington 1911
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A flat and three-thorned blackthorn would lick the scholars out of Dublin town!
The Playboy of the Western World; a Comedy in Three Acts 1907
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(_Liriodendron tulipifera_) -- the water-locust (_Gleditschia monosperma_); and, of the same genus, the three-thorned honey-locust
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850
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