NOUN
- any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries
How To Use boxthorn In A Sentence
- Stevenson says he's been collecting things for more than 70 years, including pieces of derelict vehicles found under boxthorn hedges.
- Small, brightly-colored fruits such as hackberry and boxthorn are offered as food for birds that swallow them whole. Seed dispersal of desert plants
- The plant, which occurs wild in most of Asia and has become naturalized in Europe, may also be referred to as Chinese boxthorn.
- And develop it they did, firstly planting boxthorn hedges for shelter and stringing ordinary wire through their fence posts, as steel wire seemed to withstand the salt spray better than galvanised.
- The driver's area is surrounded by a grid of steel to protect the operator during the blade-belting battle against boxthorn and barberry.
- I discovered there is boxthorn there after all - horrible plant with two-inch spikes - but none of the giant ones that are growing near Paekakariki luckily.
- Athletes battle to get over a boxthorn hedge at Hurworth during the West Coast Cross Country Championships in 1962.
- My contribution was a bowl of spinach with boxthorn (kei chi). Not So Little Girl In A Reverie
- Boxthorn's rampant growth has always been a problem.
- We stopped by the thick boxthorn and Mum and Dad said, ‘We'll have lunch and then we'll go to the beach’.