Word Meanings - PRICKLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. Prickly ash , a prickly shrub with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species

Additional info about word: PRICKLY

Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. Prickly ash , a prickly shrub with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species is X. Carolinianum. Gray. -- Prickly heat , a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of red pimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the parts affected. It is due to inflammation of the sweat glands, and is often brought on by overheating the skin in hot weather. -- Prickly pear , a name given to several plants of the cactaceous genus Opuntia, American plants consisting of fleshy, leafless, usually flattened, and often prickly joints inserted upon each other. The sessile flowers have many petals and numerous stamens. The edible fruit is a large pear-shaped berry containing many flattish seeds. The common species of the Northern Atlantic States is Opuntia vulgaris. In the South and West are many others, and in tropical America more than a hundred more. O. vulgaris, O. Ficus-Indica, and O. Tuna are abundantly introduced in the Mediterranean region, and O. Dillenii has become common in India. -- Prickly pole , a West Indian palm , the slender trunk of which bears many rings of long black prickles. -- Prickly withe , a West Indian cactaceous plant (Cereus triangularis) having prickly, slender, climbing, triangular stems. -- Prickly rat , any one of several species of South American burrowing rodents belonging to Ctenomys and allied genera. The hair is usually intermingled with sharp spines.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRICKLY)

• Articular
• Spinous
• sagittate
• prickly
• thorny
• sharp-pointed
• hastate
• bristly
• Thorny
• Spiny
• harassing
• troublesome

Related words: (words related to PRICKLY)

• ARTICULARLY
  In an articular or an articulate manner.
• ARTICULAR; ARTICULARY
  A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• ARTICULAR
  Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process.
• TROUBLESOME
  Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome. This troublesome world. Book of Common Prayer. These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton. My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope. Syn. -- Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing;
• BRISTLY
  THick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly. Bacon.
• THORNY
  1. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown. 2. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. "The thorny point of bare distress." Shak. The
• PRICKLY
  Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. Prickly ash , a prickly shrub with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species
• SPINY
  1. Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree. 2. Like a spine in shape; slender. "Spiny grasshoppers sit chirping." Chapman. 3. Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances. The spiny deserts of scholastic philosophy. Bp. Warburton.
• SAGITTATE
  Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward.
• HARASSER
  One who harasses.
• SAGITTATED
  Sagittal; sagittate.
• HARASSMENT
  The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety. Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate. Ld. Lytton.
• HASTATE; HASTATED
  Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf.
• SPINOUS
  1. Spinose; thorny. 2. Having the form of a spine or thorn; spinelike. Spinous process of a vertebra , the dorsal process of the neural arch of a vertebra; a neurapophysis.
• SUPERSPINOUS
  Supraspinuos.
• SUPRASPINATE; SUPRASPINOUS
  Situated above a spine or spines; especially, situated above, or on the dorsal side of, the neural spines of the vertebral column, or above, or in front of, the spine of the scapula.
• PARTICULARITY
  1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."
• PARTICULARLY
  1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
• SUBSPINOUS
  Subvertebral. Situated beneath a spinous process, as that of the scapula; as, subspinous dislocation of the humerus.
• PARTICULARISM
  The doctrine of particular election. (more info) 1. A minute description; a detailed statement.
• QUINQUARTICULAR
  Relating to the five articles or points; as, the quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists. Bp. Sanderson.
• INTERARTICULAR
  Situated between joints or articulations; as, interarticular cartilages and ligaments.