meaning of prickly
1. Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.
2. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. ; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous
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Related Words
prickly | prickly ash | prickly custard apple | prickly heat | prickly lettuce | prickly pear | prickly pear cactus | prickly pine | prickly poppy | prickly shield fern | prickly-seeded spinach |