| prickly | Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. <botany> Prickly ash, any one of several species of South American burrowing rodents belonging to Ctenomys and allied genera. The hair is usually intermingled with sharp spines. (05 Mar 1998) |
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| prickly heat | An eruption of papules and vesicles at the orifices of sweat glands, accompanied by redness and inflammatory reaction of the skin. Synonym: heat rash, lichen infantum, lichen strophulosus, prickly heat, strophulus, summer rash, tropical lichen, lichen tropicus, wildfire rash. (05 Mar 2000) |
| poppy | <botany> Any plant or species of the genus Papaver, herbs with showy polypetalous flowers and a milky juice. From one species (Papaver somniferum) opium is obtained, though all the species contain it to some extent; also, a flower of the plant. California poppy, a species of Silene (S. Inflata). See Catchfly. Origin: OE. Popy, AS. Popig, L. Papaver. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| poppy oil | A fixed (drying) oil expressed from the seed of Papaver somniferum; sometimes used in the preparation of liniments and as a solvent of iodine in iodised oil. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea poppy | <botany> The horn poppy. See Horn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spattling-poppy | <botany> A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects. Origin: Prov. E. Spattle to spit + E. Poppy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |