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Thorned vs Thorny - What's the difference?

thorned | thorny |

As adjectives the difference between thorned and thorny

is that thorned is containing thorns while thorny is having thorns or spines.

As a verb thorned

is (thorn).

thorned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (thorn)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • containing thorns
  • * {{quote-book, year=1914, author=John Symonds, title=Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=A prickly bindweed (the Smilax Sarsaparilla ) forms a feature in the near landscape, with its creamy odoriferous blossoms, coral berries, and glossy thorned leaves. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1863, author=Various, title=The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In these we always find that the thorned holly is spoken of as male, and the Ivy as female. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1990, date=January 19, author=James Krohe Jr., title=Green Streets, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=In its native form the branches of the honey locust are thorned and bear seed pods up to a foot long. }}

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    thorny

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • having thorns or spines
  • troublesome or vexatious
  • * Shakespeare
    • the steep and thorny way to heaven
  • aloof and irritable
  • * Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives
    • 'Come, Jo, don't be thorny . After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting, and ought to get it.'

    Derived terms

    * (l) * thorny restharrow * thorny trefoil

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