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crown of thorns
- a large spiky starfish of the tropical Indo-Pacific, feeding on coral and sometimes causing great damage to reefs.;a Madagascan shrub of the spurge family, with bright red flowers and many slender thorns. It is a popular houseplant and is sometimes used for hedging in the tropics.
noun: crown of thorns, plural noun: crowns of thorns
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- 1. a large spiky starfish of the tropical Indo-Pacific, feeding on coral and sometimes causing great damage to reefs.
- 2. a Madagascan shrub of the spurge family, with bright red flowers and many slender thorns. It is a popular houseplant and is sometimes used for hedging in the tropics.
- ▪ any of a number of thorny plants, especially Christ's thorn (Ziziphus spina-christi).