The word 'thorns' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that has sharp points, either figuratively or literally. For example: The success of their business was surrounded by thorns; legal issues, financial instability, and other complications.
The dense cover of thorns also makes it an excellent nesting and roosting cover for small birds(particularly good if you have bad cats in your 'hood).
He warned me that the long thorns that surround sloe berries may inflict a wound upon you that will go septic.
The culprits are storms (48 per cent), crown of thorns starfish (42 per cent) and coral bleaching (10 per cent).
The total darkness, which has been broken only by the crazy dance of the fireflies, is fading and now shapes are forming – branches, fronds, vines, bushes, leaves, thorns, the soaring reach of the canopy, the matted tangle of the understorey.
The first one takes place in Dodd Wood on 25 January and has a 500m ascent and a Burns Night theme (there are prizes for Caledonian-inspired fancy dress though you might want to weigh up your chances of stumbling onto thorns before going commando in a kilt).
The danger is its propensity to explode.In this section Garden of thorns Flashing flesh Dial M for murder Handy work Wisdom of experience All's fair in love and war Who didn't do it?
Over the past 27 years, half its coral has died, thanks to the bleaching, cyclones and the spread of the predatory crown-of-thorns starfish.Judith Wright, a distinguished Australian poet, helped launch one of the first conservation movements to save the reef in the 1960s.
Rising sea temperatures and acidification, both linked to global warming; and nutrients and pesticides washed from farms into its waters, help to feed coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (see box).
It has killed more than 300,000 starfish in its first year of use.In this section End of the affair Lurch to illiberalism Sunflower seeds The pink and the saffron Judgment day Coral-killers ReprintsUnfortunately, that is only a fraction of the tens of millions of crown-of-thorns starfish thought to inhabit the entire reef.
The remaining two-fifths, they say, was predation by the crown-of-thorns starfish.Although it is a natural inhabitant of the Great Barrier Reef, the crown-of-thorns has, in recent years, undergone several population explosions.
He was the thorn in everyone's side, the gleeful imp who was just there to cause trouble.
