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Definition of prickly
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Prickly
(a.) Full of sharp
points
or
prickles;
armed or
covered
with
prickles;
as, a
prickly
shrub..
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Prickliness
::
Prickliness
(n.) The
quality
of being
prickly,
or of
having
many
prickles..
Euryale
::
Euryale
(n.) A genus of water
lilies,
growing
in India and
China.
The only
species
(E.
ferox)
is very
prickly
on the
peduncles
and
calyx.
The
rootstocks
and seeds are used as
food..
Pricky
::
Pricky
(a.) Stiff and
sharp;
prickly.
Tuna
::
Tuna (n.) The
Opuntia
Tuna. See
Prickly
pear, under
Prickly..
Bramble
::
Bramble
(n.) Any plant of the genus
Rubus,
including
the
raspberry
and
blackberry.
Hence:
Any
rough,
prickly
shrub..
Poinciana
::
Poinciana
(n.) A
prickly
tropical
shrub
(Caesalpinia,
formerly
Poinciana,
pulcherrima),
with
bipinnate
leaves,
and
racemes
of showy
orange-red
flowers
with long
crimson
filaments..
Durion
::
Durion
(n.) The fruit of the
durio.
It is oval or
globular,
and eight or ten
inches
long. It has a hard
prickly
rind,
containing
a soft,
cream-colored
pulp, of a most
delicious
flavor
and a very
offensive
odor. The seeds are
roasted
and eaten like
chestnuts..
Cactus
::
Cactus
(n.) Any plant of the order
Cactacae,
as the
prickly
pear and the
night-blooming
cereus.
See
Cereus.
They
usually
have
leafless
stems and
branches,
often beset with
clustered
thorns,
and are
mostly
natives
of the
warmer
parts of
America..
Carline Thistle
::
Carline
thistle
() A
prickly
plant of the genus
Carlina
(C.
vulgaris),
found in
Europe
and
Asia..
Yellowwood
::
Yellowwood
(n.) The wood of any one of
several
different
kinds of
trees;
also, any one of the trees
themselves.
Among the trees so
called
are the
Cladrastis
tinctoria,
an
American
leguminous
tree; the
several
species
of
prickly
ash
(Xanthoxylum);
the
Australian
Flindersia
Oxleyana,
a tree
related
to the
mahogany;
certain
South
African
species
of
Podocarpus,
trees
related
to the yew; the East
Indian
Podocarpus
latifolia;
and the true
satinwood
(Chloroxylon
Swietenia).
All these Old World trees fu
Burr
::
Burr (n.) A
prickly
seed
vessel.
See Bur, 1..
Prickly
::
Prickly
(a.) Full of sharp
points
or
prickles;
armed or
covered
with
prickles;
as, a
prickly
shrub..
Nicker Nut
::
Nicker
nut () A
rounded
seed,
rather
smaller
than a
nutmeg,
having
a hard
smooth
shell,
and a
yellowish
or
bluish
color.
The seeds grow in the
prickly
pods of
tropical,
woody
climbers
of the genus
Caesalpinia.
C.
Bonduc
has
yellowish
seeds;
C.
Bonducella,
bluish
gray..
Christ''s-thorn
::
Christ's-thorn
(n.) One of
several
prickly
or
thorny
shrubs
found in
Palestine,
especially
the
Paliurus
aculeatus,
Zizyphus
Spina-Christi,
and Z.
vulgaris.
The last bears the fruit
called
jujube,
and may be
considered
to have been the most
readily
obtainable
for the Crown of
Thorns..
Sticktail
::
Stick-seed
(n.) A plant
(Echinospermum
Lappula)
of the
Borage
family,
with small blue
flowers
and
prickly
nutlets..
Xanthoxylum
::
Xanthoxylum
(n.) A genus of
prickly
shrubs
or small
trees,
the bark and rots of which are of a deep
yellow
color;
prickly
ash..
Prickling
::
Prickling
(a.)
Prickly.
Echinated
::
Echinated
(a.) Set with
prickles;
prickly,
like a
hedgehog;
bristled;
as, an
echinated
pericarp..
Teasel
::
Teasel
(n.) A plant of the genus
Dipsacus,
of which one
species
(D.
fullonum)
bears a large
flower
head
covered
with
stiff,
prickly,
hooked
bracts.
This
flower
head, when
dried,
is used for
raising
a nap on
woolen
cloth..
Thistle
::
Thistle
(n.) Any one of
several
prickly
composite
plants,
especially
those of the
genera
Cnicus,
Craduus,
and
Onopordon.
The name is often also
applied
to other
prickly
plants..
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