Enthusiasts warn against opuntias, a member of the cactus clan with tiny, irritating hairlike thorns that resist removal, even with tweezers.

Matthias saw that all the tiny thorns on the rose stems resembled small swords.

The plant itself is full of tiny thorns and is often used to cover the boundaries of areca plantations.

In a different version of the story, the mouse extracted from the lion's paw a troublesome thorn too tiny for the massive lion's claws to grasp.

It looked just like the Ring of Five Dragons, except for the tiny thorn protruding from the inside circumference.

The pink lacy curtain had been slowly turning green and rolling up into a thin worm, studded with tiny thorns, that hung in mid-air.

But even a tiny thorn can fester," she added, almost to herself.

They floated in the water around her, all one dozen of them, rubbing velvet faces against her, sometimes pricking her with their tiny thorns.

Its crystal teeth shone like tiny sharp thorns spiraling down its bottomless gullet.