CHRIST'S-THORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Christ's-thorn mean? 

• CHRIST'S-THORN (noun)
  The noun CHRIST'S-THORN has 2 senses:

1. thorny Eurasian shrub with dry woody winged fruit

2. spiny tree having dark red edible fruits

  Familiarity information: CHRIST'S-THORN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRIST'S-THORN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thorny Eurasian shrub with dry woody winged fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Christ's-thorn; Jerusalem thorn; Paliurus spina-christi

Hypernyms ("Christ's-thorn" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("Christ's-thorn" is a member of...):

genus Paliurus; Paliurus (thorny Eurasian shrubs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spiny tree having dark red edible fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Christ's-thorn; Jerusalem thorn; jujube; jujube bush; Ziziphus jujuba

Hypernyms ("Christ's-thorn" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Meronyms (parts of "Christ's-thorn"):

Chinese date; Chinese jujube; jujube (dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees)

Holonyms ("Christ's-thorn" is a member of...):

genus Ziziphus; Ziziphus (spiny chiefly tropical American and Asiatic shrubs: jujubes)