Usually means: Thorny plant causing Jesus' suffering.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word crown of thorns:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. crown of thorns: Merriam-Webster
  2. crown of thorns: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crown-of-thorns: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crown-of-thorns, crown-of-thorns: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crown of thorns: Vocabulary.com
  6. crown of thorns: Wiktionary
  7. crown of thorns: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. crown-of-thorns, crown of thorns: Dictionary.com
  9. Crown of Thorns (album), Crown of Thorns (disambiguation), Crown of Thorns (woodworking), Crown of Thorns, Crown-of-thorns, Crown of thorns: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. crown of thorns: Rhymezone
  11. crown of thorns: FreeDictionary.org
  12. crown of thorns: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. crown-of-thorns, crown of thorns: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crown of Thorns (disambiguation), crown-of-thorns, crown of thorns: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crown of Thorns (disambiguation), crown-of-thorns: Medical dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Crown of thorns: Easton Bible
  2. Crown of Thorns, Thorns, Crown of: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Crown of thorns: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (crown of thorns)

noun:  (Christianity) The crown made of a thorny plant that Christ was forced to wear before his Crucifixion, in mocking reference to his alleged status as ‘king of the Jews’, or a representation of this.
noun:  A spiny Mediterranean tree, Ziziphus spina-christi.
noun:  A spiny spurge, Euphorbia milii, native to Madagascar.
noun:  The plant Koeberlinia spinosa.
noun:  A large starfish with venemous spines, Acanthaster planci.
noun:  A woodworking technique, used in tramp art, in which interlocking pieces are notched to intersect at right angles and form joints and self-supporting objects.

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