prickly
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3.3
- adjective
- /ˈprɪkli/
:
espinoso
- Nevertheless, when the strange prickly sensation washed over his face and hands, Calhoun hesitated not an instant.
- prickly pear
- prickly pear cactus
- prickly pear infestation
So when I grabbed it, it felt like a hedgehog, prickly.
- So when I grabbed it, it felt like a hedgehog, prickly.
- There's pavement, loose stone, fake grass, and then because we're in the desert, there is lots of prickly cactus, cacti.
- Like it's sharp, It's prickly, and I think it's making my skin quite pink.
- And then cactus pear or or prickly pear, which is a red fruit that contains the same antioxidants found in beets called betalins.
Examples
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A lot of the foliage was brownish-gray, prickly as vineyards in the Napa Valley.
Fiction book (1995) -
Rising from the weeds were prickly stems whose identity was unmistakable to the rankest of amateurs.
Fiction book (1992) -
Do you ever feel the prickly things on the back of your neck?
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And then you get there and it's brown and prickly.
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Like it's sharp, It's prickly, and I think it's making my skin quite pink.
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My hands were getting all numb and prickly.
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Under the high hedge, a hedgehog rolled itself into a prickly ball at Oscar's approach.
Fiction book (1991) -
Sasha saw the prickly shape of the bonsai silhouetted against the window near her head.
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Ayla felt a strange prickly sensation on her scalp and heard a faint crackling.
Fiction book (1990) -
The gardener warned us to avoid the prickly thorns on the rose bushes.
Synonyms
6
4.2
Covered with sharp points like those on rose bushes
6
4.4
A thing with sharp points like wire or animal spines that can hurt and catch on things
3
3.9
Covered with sharp points or thorns that can hurt you
1
4.6
Covered with short, stiff hairs that feel rough
1
9.0
Having sharp pointed parts like thorns that protect a plant or animal
Having sharp, pointed parts that can prick the skin
Having sharp, pointed parts like quills or thorns on the body
Having sharp spines or points like a stinger
Covered with many small sharp points like spines
Having small sharp points that can hurt your skin
A leaf or stem that has a sharp, stiff point at the tip
A plant or plant part with a sharp thorn at the tip
Having leaves with sharp points that can hurt you
A plant with a stem covered in sharp spines or thorns
Having leaves covered in sharp points that can hurt
Having leaves with sharp points that can scratch skin
Covered with stiff, sharp spines like a porcupine
Covered with many short stiff hairs or small sharp points
Having many short stiff hairs like those on a brush
Having many short stiff hairs like bristles
With a small sharp tip like a stiff hair
Having many small hooks or bristles that stick to clothes
Having small prickles that stick to clothes or fur
Covered with many small sharp hooks that stick to clothes or fur
Full of thorny plants that can prick you
Antonyms
Compounds
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4.1
A pear-shaped fruit from a cactus covered in small sharp spines that people eat or use to make drinks
- US
A small pine tree with two needles together, peeling brown bark, and cones with sharp points
- Australian
An Australian tree with leaves that have sharp teeth and thin spikes of white flowers
A wild plant from Europe with prickly stems that often grows in gardens as a weed
- Specialized
A plant with large yellow or white flowers and sharp stems and seed pods
- Specialized
A North American fern with year-round green leathery leaves covered in pale brown scales
- Indian
A leafy green plant with small prickly seeds that people grow for its tender dark leaves used in cooking
How Prickly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prickly comes from the word prick, which means 'to poke or pierce with a small sharp point'. So a prickly plant or surface has many little points that can hurt when you touch it.