Christ's-thorn

Christ's-thorn
/kruysts"thawrn'/, n.
any of certain Old World thorny shrubs or small trees supposed to have been used for Christ's crown of thorns, as the Jerusalem thorn, Paliurus spina-christi, or the jujube, Ziziphus jujuba.
[1555-65; trans. of L spina Christi]

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