This beautiful, but forbidding, habitat is arid with a brief rainy season; accordingly, the Caatinga hosts a variety of drought-tolerant annual plants, cactus, thorny brush, and small, thorny trees that shed their leaves seasonally.
He'd imagined a thorny path that led, in the end, to a favorable resolution.
A thorn forest consists primarily of small, thorny trees that shed their leaves seasonally.
Nor is there shame in contemplating the thorny elements that will turn principle into practice.
Oblique strains are thorny injuries that do not typically heal in a few days.
A thorny issue that has been raised against in this tournament is that of coaching from the sidelines.
That is a politically thorny task that could result in some lawmakers' losing power and others gaining it.
It's a thorny subject that gets to the very heart of whose life it is anyway.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers said Friday that a third player had a MRSA infection, a thorny strain that has been a concern in N.F.L. locker rooms over the past decade.
Her case, which has received no public attention, underscores the thorny issues that arise when a severely brain-damaged person's life is sustained by medical technology.
