一切經音義 51.149

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棘樹 'Bramble tree' (The first character is fanqie 矜 + 力. The Mao Commentary on the Shijing states: '棘 is the sour jujube.' The Guangya states: '棘 means needles/thorns.' The Erya lists ox bramble, top bramble, merchant bramble, horse bramble, and dog bramble. The Fangyan states: 'Whenever plants and trees have thorns that prick people, in the region between the Yangzi and the Huai rivers they are called 棘.' The Shuowen jiezi states: '棘 resembles the jujube and grows in clumps; it is derived from two 朿 placed side by side; 朿 is pronounced fanqie 此 + 漬.' In the treatise it is written with two 来 as 棗, which is incorrect.).