What is "thornbush"

Usage examples of "thornbush".

On the north the forested hills gave way to a steplike series of tablelands, some in mixed scrub of illex and thornbush, some cultivated in orchard crops.

She burst from the shadows of the forest a second behind Gamaliel, only to be greeted by a rather strange sight: four people were being attacked by a hedge of thornbushes.

Here in the Drylands little grew unless it was planted, except thornbush.

More and more the trees gave way to cactus, thornbush, and the great spikes of century plants.

They worked very hard, then, to prove that grapes can grow on thornbushes.

Rifts of shattered masonry and strips of useless pavement showed through the thornbush, with most of the barren land eroded to gullied stone.

The boat had circled over the Ganges, a mere trickle between wide, deeply cut banks, and was crossing a gullied plain, sparsely grown with thornbush.

I might as well grumble because Tlaloc's hailstorms destroy the nourishing maize but never a disagreeable thornbush.

The brown desert is irregularly dotted with the little marks of the thornbushes, the winding riverbeds are drawn up with crooked dark-green trails.

He crept up to the rim of the gully, ducking low under the thornbushes and worming his way the last few feet on his stomach to peer carefully over the top.

The wind moaned and whistled around the rocks on the flanks of the stony hill, and the sparse thornbushes rustled stiffly.

The tough, springy thornbushes resisted the blows of Durnik's axe tenaciously.

Near the edge of the wasteland there were a few scrubby thornbushes huddling low to the sand and silvered with frost.

Then he began piling thornbushes and brambles atop it, critically watching the direction of the smoke.

With the harvest dryness of the spiky thornbushes, when the fires burned out, the thorn cover that had protected the approaches from the west and northeast would be gone.