prickly


Definition: Meaning of, prickly in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈprɪkli /

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prickly pricklier prickliest
  1. covered with thin sharp points
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  2. if your skin feels prickly, it stings slightly
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  3. something that is prickly makes your skin sting slightly
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  4. informal someone who is prickly gets annoyed or offended easily
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  5. a prickly subject causes a lot of disagreements and difficulties
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prickly used in phrases

  • prickly ash (noun)
    1. any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches
    2. when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins australian tree having alternate simple leaves and slender axillary spikes of white flowers
  • prickly custard apple (noun)
    1. small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit
  • prickly heat (noun)
    1. a skin condition in which you get uncomfortable red spots on your skin. Prickly heat is caused by too much strong sun on your skin.
  • prickly lettuce (noun)
    1. european annual wild lettuce having prickly stems; a troublesome weed in parts of United States
  • prickly pear (noun)
    1. a type of CACTUS that has yellow flowers and red fruit. The fruit is also called a prickly pear.
  • prickly pear cactus (noun)
    1. cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock
  • prickly pine (noun)
    1. Appalachians a small two-needled upland pine of the eastern United States having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scales
  • prickly poppy (noun)
    1. any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods; chiefly of tropical America
    2. annual Old World poppy with orange-red flowers and bristly fruit
  • prickly shield fern (noun)
    1. north American fern whose more or less evergreen leathery fronds are covered with pale brown chafflike scales
  • prickly-edged leaf (noun)
    1. a leaf having prickly margins
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