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棘: thorn

thorn; spine
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Readings

On
キョク
Kun
いばら・とげ

Read とげ for a thorn or splinter; いばら is literary. On-reading キョク appears in 棘皮動物 and 荊棘.

Key words

棘とげthorn; splinter
荊棘けいきょくthorns; briars
棘皮動物きょくひどうぶつechinoderm
骨棘こつきょくbone spur

Example sentences

A thorn got stuck in my finger, so my mother pulled it out for me.

Sea urchins and starfish belong to the echinoderms.

Looking at the X-ray, a bone spur had formed in the knee.

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