thornapple

plural thornapples

1. alternativeAlternative form of thorn apple.

   Hussain, who has been editing Wikipedia articles for a decade, dutifully edited pages relating to the coronavirus' spread in India during the early days of the pandemic, but the thornapple story forced a rethink.

   2021 June 27, Jackson Ryan, “Wikipedia is at war over the coronavirus lab leak theory”, in CNET

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   Plants’ social life may have remained mysterious for so long because, as researchers have seen in studies of species like sagebrush, strawberries and thornapples, the ways plants sense can be quite different from the ways in which animals do.

   2008 June 10, Carol Kaesuk Yoon, “Loyal to Its Roots”, in The New York Times