荊冠[keikan] crown of thorns
荊妻[keisai] my wife (lit: thorn spouse)
荊棘[odoro] briars

荊棘[keikyoku] wild rose
荊棘線[barasen] barbed wire
蔓荊[hamagou] beach vitex (Vitex rotundifolia)

蔓延る[habikoru] to spread
芋蔓[imozuru] sweet-potato vines
芋蔓式[imozurushiki] one after another
金蔓[kanezuru] source of revenue
蔓延[manen] spread (e.g. of a disease)

手蔓[tezuru] connections
日陰蔓[hikagenokazura] running ground pine (species of club moss, Lycopodium clavatum)
甘茶蔓[amachazuru] jiaogulan (species of herbaceous vine; Gynostemma pentaphyllum)
蔦蔓[tsutakazura] ivy and vines
蔓草[tsurukusa] vine