棘
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- 1. thorns
Words Containing 棘
thorny (problem)
thistles and thorns
lit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom)
thorny problem
echinoderm, the phylum containing sea urchins, sea cucumbers etc
ratchet
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its duck-billed snout
sea-buckthorn
genus Hippophae
coelacanth
lit. a path covered in brambles
to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people