• Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered withprickles; as, a prickly shrub. Prickly ash (Bot.), a prickly shrub(Xanthoxylum Americanum) with yellowish flowers appearing with theleaves. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southernspecies is X. Carolinianum. Gray.-- Prickly heat (Med.), a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of redpimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the partsaffected. It is due to inflammation of the sweat glands, and is oftenbrought on by overheating the skin in hot weather.-- Prickly pear (Bot.), a name given to several plants of thecactaceous genus Opuntia, American plants consisting of fleshy,leafless, usually flattened, and often prickly joints inserted uponeach other. The sessile flowers have many petals and numerousstamens. The edible fruit is a large pear-shaped berry containingmany flattish seeds. The common species of the Northern AtlanticStates 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 theMediterranean region, and O. Dillenii has become common in India.-- Prickly pole (Bot.), a West Indian palm (Bactris Plumierana), theslender trunk of which bears many rings of long black prickles.-- Prickly withe (Bot.), a West Indian cactaceous plant (Cereustriangularis) having prickly, slender, climbing, triangular stems.-- Prickly rat (Zoöl.), any one of several species of South Americanburrowing rodents belonging to Ctenomys and allied genera. The hairis usually intermingled with sharp spines.


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  • lord of the gods

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  • When someone is [otherwise] [harmless] but becomes [hostile] when harassed.

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  • [A person] who watches [everything] in [secret]

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  • Covered in prickles.

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