| 单词 | christ's thorn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasChrist's thorn Christ's thorn n. any of various thorny shrubs popularly supposed to have formed Jesus's crown of thorns; esp. either of two shrubs of the buckthorn family, Paliurus spina-christi and Ziziphus spina-christi, common in the east Mediterranean. [Compare post-classical Latin spina Christi (1583 or earlier).] Cf. crown of thorns n. 2a, Jews thorn n. at Jew n. Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > [noun] > other thorn-trees paliurec1384 paliurusa1398 sea-willow1548 Christ's thorn1553 buckler-thorn1562 garland-thorn1597 goat's thorn1597 Jews thorn1597 milk-vetch1597 sea-buckthorn1731 Spanish hedgehog thorn1760 sensitive briar1802 lily thorn1816 sallow thorn1847 cat-brier1875 1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 27v/1 Christes thorne, rhamnus. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvi. 213 [Rhamnus] Paliurus or Christ's-thorn..Being very common in Palestine..is supposed to be the thorn with which our Saviour was crowned. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 837 Two common eastern plants usually bear the name of Christ's Thorn: one the Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and the other the [Paliurus aculeatus]. 1971 Afr. Affairs 70 163 British and German victims of a 1915 skirmish lie buried in neat lonely rows of graves, beneath Christ's thorn hedges. 2015 Observer 21 June (Food Monthly Suppl.) 58/4 Yemen, a country famed across the Middle East for its honey, which is made from the flowers of the sidr tree, aka Christ's thorn, the jujube or the lote. < as lemmas |
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