Pricklies
pricklies
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- Prickling
noun 1. a sharp point. 2. a small, pointed process growing from the bark of a plant. 3. a sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal; a spine. 4. a pricking sensation. verb (used with object), prickled, prickling. 5. to prick lightly. 6. to cause a pricking or tingling sensation in. […]
- Prickly
adjective, pricklier, prickliest. 1. full of or armed with prickles. 2. full of troublesome points: a prickly problem. 3. prickling; smarting: a prickly sensation. adjective -lier, -liest 1. having or covered with prickles 2. stinging or tingling 3. bad-tempered or irritable 4. full of difficulties; knotty: a prickly problem
- Prickly-ash
noun 1. Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches. 2. Hercules-club (def 2). noun 1. a North American rutaceous shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having prickly branches, feathery aromatic leaves, and bark used as a remedy for toothache Also […]
- Prickly-heat
noun, Pathology. 1. a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands. prickly heat noun 1. a nontechnical name for miliaria prickly heat prick·ly heat (prĭk’lē) n. See heat rash.
- Prickly-pear
noun 1. any of numerous cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened, usually spiny stem joints, yellow, orange, or reddish flowers, and ovoid, often edible fruit. 2. the usually prickly fruit of such a cactus. prickly pear noun 1. any of various tropical cacti of the genus Opuntia, having flattened or cylindrical spiny joints and […]