A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English thigh
A thorn or a thorn bush or a thorn tree is a bush or tree which has a lot of thorns on it. the shade of a thorn bush
(1 ) Heb hedek (Prov 15: 19), rendered "brier" in Micah 7: 4 Some thorny plant, of the Solanum family, suitable for hedges This is probably the so-called "apple of Sodom," which grows very abundantly in the Jordan valley "It is a shrubby plant, from 3 to 5 feet high, with very branching stems, thickly clad with spines, like those of the English brier, with leaves very large and woolly on the under side, and thorny on the midriff "