Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thorn-tree

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English

Syllables: thorn-tree
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of thorn tree.

Example Sentences

"Thornthwaite [Cumb.] per pale, ar. and gu. a chev. betw. three lions' heads, erased, all counterchanged ; on a chief or, a thorn-tree ppr. —Crest, a lion's head, erased, gu. in the mouth a thorn-sprig vert, fructed ppr."
"But the olives they were not blind to Him, / The little gray leaves were kind to Him: / The thorn-tree had a mind to Him / When into the woods He came. […]"
"Every country boy and girl knows the thorn-tree, with its mass of white bloom in May and mass of red fruit in the fall."

Inflected Forms

thorn-trees (plural)

Questions

What does thorn-tree mean?: Alternative form of thorn tree.

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