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Thorny Twig

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noun

• Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

• a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries

• evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

• a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath

28%10 Can have both thorny and non-thorny varieties
noun

• family of spiny woody plants (usually shrubs or small trees) whose leaves mimic animals in sensitivity to touch; commonly included in the family Leguminosae

21%7 Catfish family that includes the twig catfish
noun

• sea catfishes

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