prickle
— Verb
– English
~ cause a prickling sensation
prickleback
— Noun
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~ small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines
prickleback
— Noun
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~ 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
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~ the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
prickling
— Noun
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~ a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings
prickly ash
— Noun
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~ 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
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~ 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
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~ any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches
prickly heat
— Noun
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~ obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity
prickly pear
— Noun
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~ round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti
prickly pine
— Noun
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~ 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
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~ small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit
prickly pear
— Noun
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~ cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock
prickly pear cactus
— Noun
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~ cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock
prickly poppy
— Noun
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~ annual Old World poppy with orange-red flowers and bristly fruit
prickly lettuce
— Noun
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~ European annual wild lettuce having prickly stems; a troublesome weed in parts of United States
prickly
— Adjective
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~ 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"
prickly-leafed
— Adjective
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~ having prickly leaves
prickly
— Adjective
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~ very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"