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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Christ's-thorn n. Bot. One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Zizyphus vulgaris.  The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.