Of thorns or thorn; thorny.

Abounding in thorn-bearing or prickly plants; overgrown with thorns or brambles. Also figurative.

Of a plant or its parts: having thorns, prickles, etc.

Of an animal or plant: having sharp points, spines, or prickles; spiny (cf. picked, adj.2 compounds). Now chiefly in fixed compounds: see piked do…

Thorny, prickly.

Having pricks, prickles, or spines; prickly.

Of an animal, plant, object, surface, etc.: having or bearing prickles; full of or covered with prickles, or prickle-like projections.

Esp. of a plant or animal: covered in or set with prickles; prickly.

Having the form of a flower-spike; characterized by the production of spikes or ears.

Set with sharp thorns. (Cf. quickset, adj.1) Obsolete.

Abounding in, furnished or thickly set with, thorns. In early quots. figurative.

Prickly, thorny.

Having spines or prickles, aculeate; (also) needle-like, sting-like.

Botany. Furnished with spines or thorns; thorn-bearing, thorny.

Made of thorns.

Botany. = spinous, adj. 2.

Botany. Having prickles or sharp points, prickly; esp. (of a leaf margin) edged with sharply pointed projections.

Botany. Developing into, or terminating in, a spine or thorn; also, bearing or covered with spines; spiniferous.

Having small prickles or sharp points. Cf. aculeate, adj. 3.

Marked with narrow lines (as if produced by a needle), finely striated. Also: (a) needle-shaped, acicular; (b) covered with aciculae. Cf. aciculate…

Furnished or covered with spinules.

having a tendency to produce small spines.

= spinulose, adj.

Having or provided with thorns.