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lit. to cut one's way through thistles and thorns (idiom) / fig. to overcome all obstacles on the way / to break through hardships / to blaze a new trail
echinoderm, the phylum containing sea urchins, sea cucumbers etc
thorny (problem) / intractable
HSK 7-9
thistles and thorns / brambles / thorny undergrowth
HSK 7-9
sea-buckthorn
ratchet
coelacanth
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thorns
Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its duck-billed snout
to eat bitter fruit and lie on thorns (idiom); to share the hard life of the common people
lit. a path covered in brambles / a course of action beset by difficulties (idiom)
genus Hippophae / sea-buckthorns
thorny problem / troublesome affair


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