V. παλίουρος, ὁ (Euripides, Cyclops 394), Ar. and V. ἄκανθα, ἡ (Sophocles, Fragment); see bush.
prickle: Ar. ἄκανθα, ἡ.
card on thorns (as a torture): P. ἐπ' ἀσπαλάθων κνάπτειν (Plato, Republic 616A).
