Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, armed with prickles: said of some rigid prickly plants, as the pineapple.
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- adjective Of or
pertaining to something bearingprickles orthistles ; somethingprickly .
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Another peculiarity of these plants is that they are acanaceous; covered all over with sharp thorns and needles.
Arizona Sketches 1887
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