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Jerusalem thorn

(Encyclopedia) Jerusalem thorn, name for various plants, particularly the Christ's-thorn.

Christ's-thorn

(Encyclopedia) Christ's-thorn, name for several Old World plants popularly said to have composed the crown of thorns. It is applied most often to two members of the family Rhamnaceae (buckthorn…

cactus

(Encyclopedia) cactus, any plant of the family Cactaceae, a large group of succulents found almost entirely in the New World. A cactus plant is conspicuous for its fleshy green stem, which performs…

cereus

(Encyclopedia) cereus: see cactus.

saguaro

(Encyclopedia) saguaro: see cactus.

Aaron's-beard

(Encyclopedia) Aaron's-beard, name sometimes applied to several plants usually characterized by some beardlike aspect, as the St.-John's-wort because of its many stamens and the Kenilworth ivy…

Brewer's: Thorn

The Conference of Thorn met October, 1645, at Thorn, in Prussia, to remove the difficulties which separate Christians into sects. It was convoked by Ladislas IV. of Poland, but no good…