Thorn: see Toruń, Poland.

thorn, sharp-pointed projection on some plants, usually protective in function. Botanically, thorns are distinguished as modified stems (as in the honey locust and hawthorn) from spines, which are modified leaves (as in the barberry), and from prickles, which are epidermal outgrowths of the bark (as in the rose and blackberry). Cacti have both thorns and spines.

Thorn has several meanings:

• Thorn, a sharp structure on plants
• Thorn tree
• Common hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna
• Thorn (letter) (Þ, þ), a letter in the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic alphabets
• Thorn (rune) the name of the th-rune in the Anglo-Saxon rune poem

Places

• Thorn, Netherlands
• Toruń, Poland (known as Thorn in German and sometimes also in English )

United Kingdom

• Thorn, Bedfordshire
• Thorn, Devon
• Thorn, Herefordshire
• Thorn, Powys

USA

• Thorn, San Bernardino County, California
• Thorn, Chickasaw County, Mississippi
• Thorn, Salt Lake County, Utah

Persons, Characters

• Andy Thorn
• Brad Thorn, Australian/New Zealand rugby league and rugby union footballer
• Damien Thorn
• Erin Thorn
• Gaston Thorn (1928-2007), Luxembourg politician
• George Thorn
• Colonel Herman Thorn (1783–1859), called "the millionaire of New York", brother of Jonathan Thorn
• Jan Thorn-Prikker
• Jesse Thorn, America's Radio sweetheart
• John Thorn
• John Thorn (musician)
• Jonathan Thorn
• Matt Thorn
• Nautica Thorn
• Philip Thorn
• Robyn Thorn
• Rod Thorn
• Stuart Thorn, President of the Fat People United Group
• Tracey Thorn
• Vanaro Thorn
• Victor Thorn
• Vikki Thorn, one-third of The Waifs
• Viktor Thorn
• Rose and Thorn is a character with a split personality in DC comics
• Thorn, the main character of the online fantasy story Darksoul Kingdom
• Thorn Harvestar, a main character in Jeff Smith's Bone comic series
• Thorns (band), a Norwegian black metal band
• The Thorns, an American acoustic rock band
• Thorn (Inheritance) a dragon from the Inheritance cycle

Companies

• Thorn EMI
• THORN Electrical Industries
• Thorn Cycles, British bicycle manufacturer
• Thorn guitars, guitar manufacturer
• Thorn Lighting, luminaire manufacturer, part of Zumtobel Lighting Group

Other uses

• Thorns, a 1967 science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg
• Thorn (horse), racehorse that won the Kentucky Futurity in 1897
• Thorn is the name of the red dragon on the cover of the book Eldest.
• Thorn (comics) is a DC Comics character.
• Thorns, a Norwegian black metal band.

See also

• Thorne, Thorne (surname)