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See also: thorn apple

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Noun

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thornapple (plural thornapples)

  1. Alternative form of thorn apple
    • 2008 June 10, Carol Kaesuk Yoon, “Loyal to Its Roots”, in New York Times[1]:
      Plants’ social life may have remained mysterious for so long because, as researchers have seen in studies of species like sagebrush, strawberries and thornapples, the ways plants sense can be quite different from the ways in which animals do.