thornyadjective
uk/ˈθɔː.ni/us/ˈθɔːr.ni/thorny adjective (PROBLEM/SUBJECT)
[ before noun ] A thorny problem or subject is difficult to deal with:
the thorny issue of taxation
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Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- painstaking
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- unwieldy
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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thorny adjective (PLANT)
having thorns:
a thorny rose bush
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Parts of plants
- aerial root
- bud
- cambium
- cane
- clove
- corm
- cotyledon
- fig leaf
- frond
- lamina
- leafless
- meristem
- micropyle
- nectary
- organ
- rootstock
- testa
- the treetops
- trunk
- twig
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