prickly : Idioms & Phrases

• noun any of a number of trees or shrubs of the genus Zanthoxylum having spiny branches
  
• noun Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers
  Orites excelsa.
  

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• (Bot.), a prickly shrub (Xanthoxylum Americanum) with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species is X. Carolinianum. Gray.

Webster 1913

• noun small tropical American tree bearing large succulent slightly acid fruit
  soursop; soursop tree; Annona muricata.
  

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• noun obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity
  heat rash; miliaria.
  

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• (Med.), a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of red pimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the parts affected. It is due to inflammation of the sweat glands, and is often brought on by overheating the skin in hot weather.

Webster 1913

• noun European annual wild lettuce having prickly stems; a troublesome weed in parts of United States
  Lactuca serriola; Lactuca scariola; horse thistle.
  

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• noun cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock
  prickly pear.
  
• noun round or pear-shaped spiny fruit of any of various prickly pear cacti
  

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• (Bot.), a name given to several plants of the cactaceous genus Opuntia, American plants consisting of fleshy, leafless, usually flattened, and often prickly joints inserted upon each other. The sessile flowers have many petals and numerous stamens. The edible fruit is a large pear-shaped berry containing many flattish seeds. The common species of the Northern Atlantic States is Opuntia vulgaris. In the South and West are many others, and in tropical America more than a hundred more. O. vulgaris, O. Ficus-Indica, and O. Tuna are abundantly introduced in the Mediterranean region, and O. Dillenii has become common in India.

Webster 1913

• noun cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock
  prickly pear.
  

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• noun a small two-needled upland pine of the eastern United States (Appalachians) having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scales
  hickory pine; table-mountain pine; Pinus pungens.
  

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• (Bot.), a West Indian palm (Bactris Plumierana), the slender trunk of which bears many rings of long black prickles.

Webster 1913

• noun any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods; chiefly of tropical America
  devil's fig; white thistle; argemone.
  
• noun annual Old World poppy with orange-red flowers and bristly fruit
  Papaver argemone.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of South American burrowing rodents belonging to Ctenomys and allied genera. The hair is usually intermingled with sharp spines.

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• noun North American fern whose more or less evergreen leathery fronds are covered with pale brown chafflike scales
  Braun's holly fern; Polystichum braunii.
  

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• (Bot.), a West Indian cactaceous plant (Cereus triangularis) having prickly, slender, climbing, triangular stems.

Webster 1913

• noun a leaf having prickly margins
  

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• adjective satellite having prickly leaves
  prickly-leafed.
  

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• adjective satellite having prickly leaves
  prickly-leafed.
  

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• noun southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves
  Spinacia oleracea; spinach plant; spinach.
  

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