prickle's Usage Examples:

, with a broad spreading head; the leaves are rather long and of a light green tint, the cones generally in pairs, the scales terminating in a sharp incurved prickle.

The fruit consists of a three-celled capsule, covered externally with soft yielding prickles, and each cell develops a single seed.

Bursaria spinosa Australian boxthorn A man developed squamous carcinoma of the skin of the forehead at the site of a boxthorn prickle puncture injury.

Meconopsis Horridula - A little plant found at a great height in the Himalayas, growing as almost stemless tufts of lanceolate leaves, covered densely with prickles; the short stems bear bluish-purple flowers about an inch and a half wide.

Two bright points of pain prickled directly behind Raif's eyes.

Skin problems ie thickening of the skin, scabs in the fur or loss of prickles, will also need veterinary treatment.

Little snatches of memories prickled her mind, and then they gradually all came together.

The leaves are very long and twisted, the small oval cones armed with recurved prickles; the tree is said to be of rapid growth.

I could listen to his cultured voice for hours, even hearing him comment on the weather was enough to make my skin prickle.

The swans emerge suddenly from under his bed - I felt the hair on the back of my neck prickle.

They count how many prickles on that leaf and return to the number line (not crossing or disturbing the line ).

Bristly Green Briar (Smilax Bona-Nox) - The root-stocks have large tubers; the stems are slightly angled, the branches often four-angled, the leaves green and shining on both sides, and their margins fringed with needle-like prickles.

prickle beautiful high harmonies, that sentiment, combine to send the hairs prickling on the back of my neck.

Synonyms:

pricker, thorn, glochid, spine, aculeus, glochidium, spikelet, sticker,

Antonyms:

fearlessness, soothe,