Nouns starting with P

• prickle — Noun – English ～ a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
• prickleback — Noun – English ～ small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines
• prickleback — Noun – English ～ small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
• prickliness — Noun – English ～ the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
• prickling — Noun – English ～ a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings
• prickly-edged leaf — Noun – English ～ a leaf having prickly margins
• prickly ash — Noun – English ～ Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers
• prickly poppy — Noun – English ～ any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods; chiefly of tropical America
• prickly ash — Noun – English ～ any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches
• prickly heat — Noun – English ～ obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity
• prickly pear — Noun – English ～ round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti
• prickly pine — Noun – English ～ a small two-needled upland pine of the eastern United States (Appalachians) having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scales
• prickly custard apple — Noun – English ～ small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit
• prickly pear — Noun – English ～ cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock
• prickly pear cactus — Noun – English ～ cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock
• prickly poppy — Noun – English ～ annual Old World poppy with orange-red flowers and bristly fruit
• prickly lettuce — Noun – English ～ European annual wild lettuce having prickly stems; a troublesome weed in parts of United States
• prickteaser — Noun – English ～ a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
• pride-of-India — Noun – English ～ tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree
• pride — Noun – English ～ a group of lions

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