Associations to the word «Prickly»

PRICKLY, adjective. Covered with sharp points.

PRICKLY, adjective. Easily irritated.

PRICKLY, adjective. Difficult, hairy, complicated

PRICKLY ASH, noun. Any of a number of trees and shrubs in the genus Zanthoxylum.

PRICKLY ASHES, noun. Plural of prickly ash

PRICKLY HEAT, noun. Miliaria

PRICKLY HORNWORT, noun. Ceratophyllum demersum, a freshwater plant, of cosmopolitan distribution.

PRICKLY OAK, noun. An oak, Quercus coccifera, native to the western Mediterranean region and growing 1-6 meters tall.

PRICKLY PEAR, noun. Any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia

PRICKLY PEAR, noun. The fruit, often edible, of such a plant.

PRICKLY PEARS, noun. Plural of prickly pear

PRICKLY POPPY, noun. Argemone mexicana, a yellow-flowered plant of the poppy family, as prickly as a thistle.

PRICKLY, adjective. Very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues".

PRICKLY, adjective. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers".