prickly 音标拼音: [pr'ɪkli]
a . 多刺的,满是针的,针刺般扎痛的
多刺的,满是针的,针刺般紮痛的
prickly adj 1 :
very irritable ; "
bristly exchanges between the White House and the press "; "
he became prickly and spiteful ";
"
witty and waspish about his colleagues " [
synonym : {
bristly },
{
prickly }, {
splenetic }, {
waspish }]
2 :
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 " [
synonym :
{
barbed }, {
barbellate }, {
briary }, {
briery }, {
bristled },
{
bristly }, {
burred }, {
burry }, {
prickly }, {
setose },
{
setaceous }, {
spiny }, {
thorny }]
Prickly \
Prick "
ly \,
a .
Full of sharp points or prickles ;
armed or covered with prickles ;
as ,
a prickly shrub .
[
1913 Webster ]
{
Prickly heat } (
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 .
{
Prickly pear } (
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 . {
Opuntia vulgaris }, {
Opuntia Ficus -
Indica },
and {
Opuntia Tuna }
are abundantly introduced in the Mediterranean region ,
and {
Opuntia Dillenii }
has become common in India .
{
Prickly pole } (
Bot .),
a West Indian palm ({
Bactris Plumierana }),
the slender trunk of which bears many rings of long black prickles .
{
Prickly withe } (
Bot .),
a West Indian cactaceous plant ({
Cereus triangularis })
having prickly ,
slender ,
climbing ,
triangular stems .
{
Prickly rat } (
Zool .),
any one of several species of South American burrowing rodents belonging to {
Ctenomys }
and allied genera .
The hair is usually intermingled with sharp spines .
[
1913 Webster ]
98 Moby Thesaurus words for "
prickly ":
acanaceous ,
acanthoid ,
aciculate ,
aculeate ,
aculeolate ,
agitable ,
allergic ,
anaphylactic ,
annoying ,
atingle ,
bad -
tempered ,
barbed ,
bothersome ,
brambly ,
briery ,
bristly ,
cantankerous ,
complex ,
complicated ,
contentious ,
cranky ,
crawling ,
crawly ,
delicate ,
difficult ,
edgy ,
emotional ,
emotionally unstable ,
empathetic ,
empathic ,
eruptive ,
excitable ,
explosive ,
fractious ,
fretful ,
goosy ,
hard ,
high -
mettled ,
high -
spirited ,
high -
strung ,
highly emotional ,
hyperesthetic ,
hyperpathic ,
hypersensitive ,
inflammable ,
intricate ,
irascible ,
irritable ,
itchy ,
knotty ,
mettlesome ,
miffy ,
muricate ,
nervous ,
nettlesome ,
overrefined ,
oversensible ,
oversensitive ,
overtender ,
passible ,
peevish ,
perturbable ,
pettish ,
petulant ,
pricking ,
prickling ,
pricky ,
refined ,
responsive ,
sensitive ,
setaceous ,
setose ,
short -
tempered ,
skittish ,
snappish ,
spiculate ,
spiky ,
spinous ,
spiny ,
startlish ,
stinging ,
supersensitive ,
sympathetic ,
tactful ,
temperamental ,
tender ,
testy ,
tetchy ,
thin -
skinned ,
thistly ,
thorny ,
ticklish ,
tingling ,
tingly ,
touchy ,
troublesome ,
volcanic ,
waspish
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