pricker
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈprɪkər/
- Specialized
:
espina
- I just cut my hand on a pricker bush.
- pricker bush
Examples
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The gardener warned me to be careful around the pricker on the rose bush.
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I was pulling out the pricker.
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Outside the boxes, only weeds with prickers and fat, furry leaves survive in the hard cracked earth.
Fiction book (1999) -
Not so enchanted, however, because the skinny scrub pines were strangled with underbrush, pricker bushes, and poison ivy.
Fiction book (1998) -
While hiking, I accidentally brushed against a pricker on a nearby thorny plant.
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She wore gloves to protect herself from the prickers found on the blackberry bushes.
Synonyms
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1.0
A sharp point on a plant stem or leaf that can hurt you
40
4.1
A sharp, stiff part on a plant or animal that can prick
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3.9
A small sharp point on a plant stem or leaf that can scratch
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6.5
A small sharp point on a plant that can prick you
A small pointed part on a grass or grain stem that holds small flowers
A sharp point on a plant stem that can hurt you
A stiff, sharp point on a plant that keeps animals from eating it
How Pointed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pricker comes from the word prick, which means 'to pierce' or 'to give a small sharp pain'. That's why a pricker on a plant is a little sharp point that can 'prick' your skin, like a tiny spike.