Thorny shrub
The crossword clue "Thorny shrub" is answered by ACACIA, a 6-letter entry. Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ACACIA
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ACACIA answer page.
Used 12 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- ROSEBUSH (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for ACACIA
Every other clue in this collection answered by ACACIA, most used first.
- Mimosa family tree - used 16 times, most recently in 2017
- Gum arabic source - used 13 times, most recently in 2018
- Source of gum arabic - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Locust tree - used 9 times, most recently in 1999
- Gum arabic - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Tree of the mimosa family - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Gum arabic tree - used 7 times, most recently in 2009
- Spiny tree - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Thorny tree - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Flowering shrub - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Gum-yielding tree - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Mimosa family member - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Flowering shrub - AZALEA, used 52 times
- Showy shrub - AZALEA, used 43 times
- Flowery shrub - AZALEA, used 18 times
- Rose family shrub - SPIREA, used 15 times
- Ornamental shrub - SPIREA, used 14 times
- Hedge shrub - PRIVET, used 11 times
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