| prickly | having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc. |
|---|---|
| prickly | very irritable |
| prickly | Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers |
| prickly | any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches |
| prickly | small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit |
| prickly | obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity |
| prickly | European annual wild lettuce having prickly stems |
| prickly | round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti |
| prickly | cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species |
| prickly | cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species |
| prickly | small 2-needled upland pine of the eastern United States (Appalachians) having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scales |
| prickly | annual Old World poppy with orange-red flowers and bristly fruit |