inflammatory vs thorn

inflammatory

noun
  • Any material that causes inflammation 

adj
  • Tending to inflame or provoke somebody. 

  • Relating to, causing, or caused by inflammation. 

thorn

noun
  • That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome. 

  • A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives). 

  • A sharp protective spine of a plant. 

  • Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn. 

verb
  • To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object). 

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