A stiff, sharp-pointed, straight or curved woody process on the stem or other part of a plant; a spine, a prickle.

A nail, spike, prickle, or spine. Obsolete.

A small sharp projecting organ or part; a thorn or prickle on a plant; a spine or quill on an animal.

Chiefly Scottish. A prickle, thorn, or spine, esp. of a plant or animal. Cf. pick, n.1 5.

Botany. A stiff, sharp-pointed process produced or growing from the wood of a plant, consisting of a hardened or irregularly developed branch…

A rigid, but comparatively short and slender, sharp-pointed outgrowth from or extension of the epidermis of a plant; spec. a modified trichome. Cf…

A prickle or thorn. Obsolete. rare.

Botany. A stiff sharp-pointed tubular hair, which emits an irritating fluid when touched. †Also applied to a thorn.

An object or item with a tapering tip. Something having a sharpened or tapering tip, as a nail, pin, spike, thorn, pointer, etc.

plural. The thorns or prickles of a plant, the spines or spikes of a hedgehog, sharp fins of a fish, etc. Chiefly poetic; now rare.

A thorn; a prickle; a splinter.

A natural structure having the form of a pin. A thorn or prickle. Obsolete. rare.

A small sharp point or spike; a thorn, a prickle. Obsolete.

A small spine or thorn.

Botany. A sharply pointed projection on a plant, such as a thorn or a spine; esp. one growing directly from the epidermis or forming an extension…

colloquial and regional (now chiefly U.S.). A thorn, spine, or prickle of a plant.

A small sharp-pointed process on some part of a plant or animal; a prickle.

A slender spine, prickle, or other needle-like structure; (in polychaete annelids) a chitinous rod forming an internal support for a parapodium.

= acicula, n.

= acicula, n.

A minute thorn.

U.S. colloquial. A burr, thorn, etc., that clings to clothing or animal fur.