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Briar :: Briar (n.) A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax..

Pricker :: Pricker (n.) One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle..

Aculeate :: Aculeate (a.) Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.

Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.

Cutgrass :: Cutgrass () A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia..

Weapon :: Weapon (n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished..

Unarmed :: Unarmed (a.) Having no hard and sharp projections, as spines, prickles, spurs, claws, etc..

Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds..

Aculeus :: Aculeus (n.) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses..

Acicula :: Acicula (n.) One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal..

Hedgehog :: Hedgehog (n.) A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects..

Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine..

Aculeated :: Aculeated (a.) Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.

Echinulate :: Echinulate (a.) Set with small spines or prickles.

Aculeate :: Aculeate (a.) Having prickles, or sharp points; beset with prickles..

Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..

Tear-thumb :: Tear-thumb (n.) A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles..

Stickler :: Stickleback (v. t.) Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback..

Acantha :: Acantha (n.) A prickle.

Aculeiform :: Aculeiform (a.) Like a prickle.

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