单词 | prickly |
释义 | pricklyadj. 1. Of an animal, plant, object, surface, etc.: having or bearing prickles; full of or covered with prickles, or prickle-like projections.See also prickly pear n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > thorn or prickle > [adjective] thornenc897 thornyc1000 armeda1398 pikeda1398 thornish1426 pricky1548 prickly1577 prickled1578 spiky1578 sharp-set1601 spiny1604 senticous1657 aculeous1658 spinous1668 spineal1688 spinose1693 aculeate1753 spinescent1793 aculeolate1818 aciculated1819 spinulose1819 spinulescent1836 spinulous1846 thorned1895 the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > [adjective] > having (a) sharp projection(s) > having points like prickles or bristles sharpc1000 prickling1567 prickly1577 prickled1578 thistly1605 pricklish1698 spicated1703 bristled1794 thistlish1858 stivery1892 burred1906 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a hard protective covering > having spines pikeda1398 prickled1578 spinose1661 thorny1711 prickly1774 spinous1774 spined1777 spinaceous1875 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. 57 You see hereby Spinage, so tearmed (as you knowe) of the prickly seedes, called in Latine Spinacia. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xxxiv. 700 The leaues of Holly are..full of sharpe poyntes or prickley corners. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. cccxxx. 772 The great melon or Pompion bringeth foorth thicke and rough prickly stalkes. 1626 F. Bacon Sylva §458 Artichoakes will be lesse prickly, and more tender, if the Seedes haue their Tops dulled or grated off vpon a Stone. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Mddx. 182 Mr. John Denley..began to sing a Psalm at the Stake, and Dr. Story..caused a prickley fagot to be hurled in his face, which so hurt him, that he bled therewith. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 315 I examine its fins, whether they be prickly or soft. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 527 The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse. 1825 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) I. iv. 76 Pretty thatched cottages standing in little compounds, or yards, hedged round with a kind of prickly fence. 1911 Times 17 July 10/5 In many districts where gorse and prickly vegetation may be met with gaiters are an indispensible protection. 1943 G. Greene Ministry of Fear i. i. 8 Short blunt fingers prickly with big art-and-crafty rings. 1961 J. Dawson Ha-ha vi. 114 We started walking across fields that were prickly with stubble. 1991 J. Smiley Thousand Acres i. 4 That was the year my father bought his first car, a Buick sedan with prickly gray velvet seats. 2001 H. Holmes Secret Life Dust iv. 45 Camel ticks, sensing opportunity, came trundling from the skimpy shade of prickly silver-green shrubs. 2. Having or causing a tingling or itching sensation; (also) designating such a sensation. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > pricking or tingling pricking1483 tingling1543 thorny-pricking1594 dindling1597 punctory1661 punctious1688 prickly1749 tingly1862 pringling1896 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 159 The smart of the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat, such fiery tinglings, as made me sigh. 1836 J. M. Gully tr. F. Magendie Formulary (ed. 2) 4 The patient complained of a prickly feeling of the limbs. 1849 H. Melville Mardi II. xxxix.156 All I am sure of, is a sort of prickly sensation all over me, which they call life. 1902 J. Buchan Watcher by Threshold i. 81 The skin grows hot and prickly. 1960 Spectator 16 Sept. 417 That curious prickly after-taste which appears to be characteristic of every foodstuff in which monosodium glutamate figures. 1979 W. Zander Distances v. 66 Watery eyes, prickly skin, shimmery Waves of heat. 2002 Guardian 15 Apr. i. 15/2 The venom causes a condition called irukandji syndrome, where the victim feels a prickly sensation followed by severe cramps, stomach and back pains, and nausea. 3. figurative. a. Of a person: quick to react angrily, ready to take offence; (of an attitude, reaction, etc.) oversensitive, touchy. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > touchiness > [adjective] stomaching1579 pepper-nosed1580 ticklish1581 touchy1602 sensible1613 touchousa1618 tender1641 tickly1661 indigestive1670 snuffy1678 huffy1680 snuffish1689 sorea1694 mifty1699 resentive1710 sensitive1735 uppish1778 miffish1790 miffy1810 stomachy1825 porcupinish1829 insultable1841 offensible1846 highty-tighty1847 prickly1853 fuffy1858 piquable1860 offendable1864 raw1864 ear-sore1865 uffish1871 porcupiny1890 feisty1896 ticklish-tempered1897 toey1930 1853 C. M. Yonge Heir of Redclyffe Hall I. x. 165 It is surely wrong to be more prickly than is unavoidable... Selfish! 1894 Idler Sept. 207 Anxious to try, in his own person, the effect of wedding what one may call the Prickly Young Person. 1935 N. Mitchison We have been Warned iv. 340 Would you mind particularly if the C.P. were involved..? They're a nasty, prickly lot. 1950 Listener 9 Nov. 482/1 Hence the prickly suspicions of the new China's relations with the Western Powers. 1980 T. Morgan Somerset Maugham iii. 168 Janet Vale of the Morning Telegraph found him prickly. 2003 Time Out N.Y. 4 Sept. 155/1 Lydia Lunch's prickly rants. b. Of a topic, argument, etc.: beset with contentious points; involving sensitive issues; difficult to deal with. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [adjective] arvethc885 uneathOE arvethlichc1000 evilc1175 hardc1175 deara1225 derfa1225 illc1330 wickeda1375 uneasy1398 difficul?a1450 difficile?1473 difficulta1527 unready1535 craggy1582 spiny1604 tough1619 uphill1622 shrewda1626 spinousa1638 scabrous1646 spinose1660 rugged1663 cranka1745 tight1764 thraward1818 nasty1828 upstream1847 awkward1860 pricklyc1862 bristling1871 sticky1871 rocky1873 dodgy1898 challengeful1927 solid1943 ball-busting1944 challenging1975 c1862 E. Dickinson Poems (1955) II. 490 His pretty estimates Of Prickly Things. 1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 943/2 The discussion over this extremely complicated and prickly question is not yet closed. 1900 Geogr. Jrnl. 15 656 As regards the very prickly subject of the spelling of [Chinese] names. 1950 Times 16 Jan. 5/4 It is good that one party has had the courage..to attempt an examination of this prickly and explosive topic. 2002 Mandala Mar.–May 9/1 Since time immemorial, humans have relied upon violence and the straight-on attack as the quickest solution to a prickly problem. Compounds C1. ΚΠ 1771 R. Weston Universal Botanist II. 201 Spanish prickly-cupped Dwarf Cistus. ?1788 J. Abercrombie Gen. Syst. Trees & Shrubs 198/1 Prickly-cupped Spanish Oak. A most lofty, large, deciduous tree, of beautiful growth..and acorns in very large, prickly cups. 1872 tr. L. Figuier Veg. World (new ed.) 370 The Prickly-cupped Oak or Valonia..which grows in the Morea, valuable for its acorns. prickly-headed adj. ΚΠ 1648 J. Bobart Eng. Catal. at Knapweed, in Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis Prickly headed Knapweed, Iacea cap: hir. Boelii. 1799 C. Murrray Brit. Garden 606 Prickly headed Liquorice. Legumes prickly; leaves with stipules. 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. June 419/1 The prickly-headed Poppy. 1990 Post Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 17 Oct. c1/3 That quirky, prickly-headed kid, Bart Simpson. 2002 Portage (Manitoba) Daily Graphic (Nexis) 2 Nov. 10 Some, such as the Long Prickly-headed poppy are native to the English landscape or countryside. prickly-leaved adj. ΚΠ 1650 W. How Phytologia Britannica 3 Prickly leaved Holly. 1766 J. Woodhouse Poems (ed. 2) 109 By these, the prickly-leaved oak you see. 1873 G. M. Grant Ocean to Ocean 283 A dark green prickly-leaved bush like English holly, called the Oregon grape. 1977 Daily Tel. 15 Feb. 17/4 Pretty Tongan girls..kept the Royal party as cool as they could with fans made from the prickly-leaved pandanus tree. 2005 R. L. Jones Plant Life of Kentucky 136 Plants various but, if prickly-leaved, then leaves alternate. prickly-stemmed adj. ΚΠ 1853 A. R. Wallace Narr. Trav. Amazon ii. 33 A prickly-stemmed fan-leaved palm. 1934 Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Northwestern 4 Oct. 12/7 Prickly stemmed flowers. 2005 Boston Globe (Nexis) 1 Sept. h4 This prickly stemmed wild Asian rose is a dangerously invasive plant. C2. prickly ash n. any of various North American prickly shrubs or trees: spec. (a) a shrub with spiny bark, the devil's walking stick, Aralia spinosa (family Araliaceae); (b) any of several spiny or prickly pinnate-leaved shrubs or trees of the genus Zanthoxylum (family Rutaceae), esp. either of two shrubs whose aromatic bark is used medicinally, the toothache tree, Z. americanum and the Hercules' club Z. clava-herculis. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > prickly ash prickly ash1705 toothache-tree1731 1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia 26 The bark of the root of..the Prickly Ash, being dried and powder'd, has been found to be a Specifick, in old Ulcers, and Long-running Sores. 1743 J. F. Gronovius Flora Virginica II. 150 Aralia... Gambriar and Prickly-ash. 1821 T. Nuttall Jrnl. Trav. Arkansa Territory 110 I saw here a prickly ash (Zanthoxylion Clava Herculis), the size of an ordinary ash, but the same species as that of the southern states, and the bark proving equally efficacious for allaying the tooth-ache. 1860 M. A. Curtis Bot. 91 Prickly ash. (Aralia spinosa)... The berries..are thought by some to be also a valuable remedy for the bite of a rattlesnake. 2004 Photochem. & Photobiol. 79 506/1 Northern prickly ash, Zanthoxylum americanum, is a traditional phytomedicine used by the North American First Nation's Peoples as a topical agent for the treatment of skin infections. prickly-back n. (a) English regional (northern) = prickleback n. 1 (now rare); †(b) U.S. the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, when it has shed its shell and is waiting for the new one to harden (obsolete rare).Sense (b) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Gasterosteiformes (sticklebacks) > [noun] > family Gasterosteidae > species aculeatus (three-spined stickleback) banstickle1483 prickleback1747 three-spined stickleback1769 prickly-back1862 pricky-back1864 1862 C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds & Neighbourhood at Jack-sharps Tom Barsey's. Prickly-Backs. Small fresh-water fishes, called by these several names. 1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 174 Tom Cods,..Prickly Backs... Dog Fish. Bill Fish. 1890 Cent. Dict. Pricklyback, the edible crab, Callinectes hastatus, when the new shell is only partially hardened; a shedder. 1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. 171 Prickly-backs, stickle-backs; found in brick-ponds, etc., and the delight of very youthful anglers. prickly box n. any of several spiny shrubs: †(a) butcher's broom, Ruscus aculeatus (obsolete); †(b) a shrub of the genus Lycium (family Solanaceae), also called box-thorn (obsolete); (c) Australian sweet bursaria, Bursaria spinosa (family Pittosporaceae). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > butcher's broom > [noun] knee-hollyc1000 butcher's broom1538 petigrew1538 horse-tongue1562 knee-holm1562 knee-hull1562 ruscus1562 double-tongue1578 prickly box1578 tongue-blade1578 ground-myrtle1601 uvularia1706 Alexandrian laurel1760 punnai1794 shepherd's myrtlec1840 Jew's myrtle1856 knee-hul- knee-hulver- 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xiii. 674 Butchers broome..is called..in base Almaigne, Stekende palme, that is to say, Prickley Boxe. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. xxv. 1151 It is named in Greeke πυχáκανθα, which a man may call in Latine Buxea spina: and in English, Boxe Thorne: of some, Asses Boxe Tree, and prickley Boxe. 1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 90 Theres Sowbread, Stanwort, and Starre of Hierusalem, Base or flat Veruine, and the wholesome Tansie,..Bell rags, prickly Boxe, and Raspis of Couentry. 1792 J. Hamilton Culpeper's Eng. Family Physician I. 190 Prickly Box... It was from a decoction of the small branches, seeds, and roots of this tree, that the ancient physicians made their lycium. 1904 Emu 3 216 Found a Fire-tailed Finch's..nest just begun in a prickly box. 2000 Hobart Mercury (Austral.) (Nexis) 25 Nov. (Weekend section) 43 The basic rules are to provide thick shrubbery—like prickly box—to give birds shelter from predators. prickly broom n. any of various prickly shrubs; esp. gorse, Ulex europaeus. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. xviii. 1138 There be diuers sorts of prickley Broome, called in our English toong by sundry names..in some places Furzes, in others Whinnes, and Gorsse, and of some pricklie Broome. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 29 It is found..most copiously amongst our Whinns or prickly Broom. 1763 P. Miller Abridgem. of Gardeners Dict. (ed. 5) Anthyllis... Prickly Broom with duckmeat leaves and bluish purple flowers. 1923 Mod. Lang. Notes 38 395 This is nature's way of adorning waste and wild places with pretty gold and green. It is known here indifferently as furze, gorse, whin and prickly broom. 2000 Farmer's Guardian (Nexis) 13 Oct. 46 The name ‘broom’ or ‘broomstick’ came about..because originally prickly broom was used tied in a bundle by butchers to scrub their cutting blocks. prickly bullhead n. now rare = prickly sculpin n. ΚΠ 1836 J. Richardson Fauna Boreali-Americana III. 295 Cottus Asper. (Richardson) Prickly Bull-head. 1873–6 Amer. Cycl. 428/1 There is a cottoid in the Columbia river, called the prickly bullhead. 1937 Ecology 18 452 The prickly bullhead is found in many bodies of fresh water connected with the sea. prickly cedar n. (a) a juniper of southern Europe, Juniperus oxycedrus, with sharp needle-like leaves; (b) a heathlike Australasian shrub, Cyathodes juniperina (family Epacridaceae); cf. mingimingi n. 1. ΚΠ 1653 N. Culpeper Pharmacopœia Londinensis 49 From the prickly Cedar when it is burned comes forth that which with us, is usually known by the name of Tar. 1858 G. R. Fairbanks Hist. & Antiq. 64 His promenade among the briars, vines, prickly cedars, chaparral, and prickly pears of Anastasia, seems to have been a true via dolorosa. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 24 Cedar, Prickly, Juniperus Oxycedrus. 2000 State (Columbia, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 10 Dec. h1 If you are working with prickly cedar, wear gloves to protect your hands. prickly comfrey n. a blue-flowered, very bristly comfrey, Symphytum asperum, native to the Caucasus and grown elsewhere for ornament and formerly as a fodder plant. ΚΠ 1862 Chambers's Encycl. III. 150/2 The Prickly C[omfrey], S. asperrimum, a native of Siberia,..has been highly recommended for feeding cattle. 1914 C. V. Piper Forage Plants & their Culture 580 The seed of prickly comfrey is not very satisfactory so the plant is usually propagated by divisions of the crown or by sections of the taproot. 2004 Guardian (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island) (Nexis) 6 Jan. (Voice for Island Seniors section) 18 There are several different species of comfrey, two of which are already prohibited from being used in therapeutic products in Canada because they contain echimidine: prickly comfrey and Russian comfrey. prickly fern n. = prickly shield fern n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > other ferns mountain parsley1578 female fern1597 rock parsley1597 spleenwort1597 marsh fern1686 prickly fern1764 parsley fern1777 sensitive fern1780 lady fern1783 stone-brake1796 mountain fern1800 rock brake1802 walking leaf1811 todea1813 shield-fern1814 Woodsia1815 mangemange1817 cinnamon fern1818 climbing fern1818 bladder-fern1828 king fern1829 filmy fern1830 ostrich fern1833 New York fern1843 mokimoki1844 rhizocarp1852 film-fern1855 nardoo1860 gymnogram1861 holly-fern1861 limestone-polypody1861 elk-horn1865 Gleichenia1865 lizard's herb1866 cliff brake1867 kidney fern1867 Christmas fern1873 Prince of Wales feathers1873 Christmas shield fern1878 buckler-fern1882 crape-fern1882 stag-horn1882 ladder fern1884 oleander fern1884 stag fern1884 resam1889 lip-fern1890 coral-fern1898 bamboo fern1930 pteroid1949 fern-gale- 1764 J. Petiver Jacobi Petiveri Opera 9/2 Common Prickly Fern..in moist and shady ditches. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. viii. 182 The prickly fern (polystichum aculeatum)..exceedingly abundant in England and Jersey. 2001 Orlando (Florida) Sentinel (Nexis) 30 July a1 She wears a plastic glove on one hand to protect her from the chemicals and layers it with a knit glove to protect her hand from prickly fern spines. prickly glasswort n. = prickly saltwort n. ΚΠ 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1284 Kali spinosum Prickly Glassewort. 1739 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. II. Eastern shrubby prickly Glasswort, with a stinking ground-pine Leaf. 1935 W. C. L. Muenscher Weeds ii. 214 Salsola Kali... Russian thistle, Saltwort, Prickly glasswort. 1999 Jrnl. Biotechnol. 70 79 (table) Salsola kali..Prickly glasswort... Deadly to cows in large quantities. prickly grass n. grass with stiff, pointed leaves or bristly spikelets, esp. spinifex of Australia (genus Triodia) and cockspur (genus Echinochloa). ΚΠ 1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland iii. 129 The Isle produces nothing but a sort of green, short, hard, prickly Grass. 1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 54 Echinochloa P. de B. Prickly-grass. 1957 D. McClintock Suppl. to Pocket Guide Wild Flowers 44 Prickly grass, Tragus racemosus (L.) Allioni, is an annual with..fewer globular..1-flowered spikelets all fertile and very rough with hooked bristles. 2002 Washington Times (Nexis) 1 May e1 We snaked our way on foot..along an uphill path of red-orange dirt dotted with spinefex [sic] (a prickly grass), which we were warned to avoid. prickly lettuce n. a Eurasian wild lettuce, Lactuca serriola (family Asteraceae), naturalized in the United States, with leaves which are deeply lobed when mature and have a distinctive row of spines on the midvein of the lower surface. ΚΠ 1785 R. Relhan Flora Cantabrigiensis 293 Prickly Lettuce... Borders of Fields... In the Isle of Ely. 1896 Bot. Gaz. 21 34 Among the weeds of recent introduction in America, the prickly lettuce..ranks next to the Russian thistle in the rapidity with which it has spread. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 363/1 Prickly lettuce, Lactuca serriola, is a tall annual with panicles of yellow flowers (closing up early in the day) and spiny grey-green leaves, which clasp the stem at their base. prickly melon n. rare the durian, the spiny fruit of Durio zibethinus (family Bombacaceae), of South-East Asia; the plant which bears this fruit. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > of Asia durian1588 lychee1588 mangosteen1598 prickly melon1640 longan1655 rambutan1707 jambu1727 Otaheite apple1777 langsat1783 rambai1811 loquat1829 wampee1830 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1640 Duriones, the prickly fruitfull Melon. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 83/1 The prickly Melon..the fruit hath a green rind set full of short and thick sharp pricks, having some strakes thereon, as the melon hath. 1994 Modesto Bee (Nexis) 10 July a3 The garden also has Asian pumpkins, a squash coveted for stews; prickly melons, diced and combined with coconut milk and ice for a dessert. prickly Moses n. [alteration of prickly mimosa (compare quot. 1965)] Australian any of several kinds of wattle of the genus Acacia with needle-like leaves, esp. A. verticillata, A. ulicifolia, and A. pulchella. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > acacia trees > [noun] acacia1542 babul1696 marblewood1753 black wattle1802 popinac1809 wattlec1810 wattle-treec1810 giraffe tree1815 haakdoring1822 hookthorn1822 kameeldoorn1822 camel-thorn1824 catechu-tree1829 silver wattle1832 blackthorn1833 thorny acacia1834 boobyalla1835 seyal1844 mulga1848 thorn-wood1850 hackthorn1857 mimosa1857 poison tree1857 Port Jackson1857 talha1857 golden wattle1859 whitethorn acacia1860 buffalo thorn1866 nelia1867 siris1874 cassie1876 couba1878 needlebush1884 sallow wattle1884 sally1884 giddea1885 prickly Moses1887 yarran1888 opopanax tree1889 wait-a-while1889 fever tree1893 giraffe acacia1896 stay-a-while1898 brigalow1901 wirra1904 cootamundra1909 Sydney golden wattle1909 witchetty bush1911 rooikrans1917 jam-tree1934 whistling thorn1949 blackthorn1966 1887 Australian Apr. 9/3 An expedition was now made into the scrub for fishing rods... I cannot recommend ‘snap-scrub’ for a rod, nor that awful thing which our philosopher called ‘prickly moses’. 1965 Austral. Encycl. VII. 276/1 Prickly Moses, a corruption of ‘prickly mimosa’ applied to several species of wattle. 1987 Woman's Day (Melbourne) 27 July 101/1 (caption) Prickly moses, a popular shrub wattle. prickly palm n. any of several small slender tropical American palms of the genus Bactris, esp. B. major, that have prickly stems or petioles. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > other palms prickly palm1666 thorny palm1666 palm1681 sagwire1681 wine-palm1681 prickle-palm1684 prickly pole1696 brab1698 palmyra1698 thatch-tree1756 double coconut1775 nibong1779 nipa1779 rhapis1789 cocorite1796 groo-groo1796 borassus1798 cohune1805 traveller's tree1809 tucum1810 gomuti1811 taliera1814 lontar1820 salak1820 ground-rattan1823 geonoma1824 tucuma1824 nikau1827 wax-palm1830 murumuru1834 piassava1835 traveller's palm1850 bangalow1851 inajá palm1853 jacitara1853 peach palm1853 pupunha palm1853 jipijapa1858 urucuri1860 climbing palm1863 sea-apple1864 Alexandra palm1865 coquito1866 thatch1866 thatch-palm1866 açai1868 walking-stick palm1869 kentia1870 toquilla1877 Guadalupe palm1895 tortoiseshell palm1902 pimpler1909 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 36 If the Prickly-Palm before described, afford Wine. 1862 Jrnl. Royal. Geogr. Soc. 32 262 The ‘soopa’ is a prickly-palm, about 30 feet high; it grows both wild and cultivated; it produces large bunches of fruit about the size of a potato. 1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 134/2 Bactris major... Prickly palm. Sts. many.., at first prickly but becoming smooth with age. prickly parsnip n. now historical a plant of the genus Echinophora, esp. E. spinosa of Mediterranean coasts, which has spine-tipped leaves and a prickly inflorescence (cf. prickly samphire n.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > prickly parsnip sea parsnip1640 prickly parsnip1760 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Parsnep, Prickly, Echinophora. 1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Apr. c7/1 For centuries, parsnips, both wild and cultivated, have grown throughout Europe. There are several varieties, including sea parsnips, prickly parsnips..and giant parsnips. prickly pole n. Caribbean (Jamaican) (now historical) = prickly palm n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > other palms prickly palm1666 thorny palm1666 palm1681 sagwire1681 wine-palm1681 prickle-palm1684 prickly pole1696 brab1698 palmyra1698 thatch-tree1756 double coconut1775 nibong1779 nipa1779 rhapis1789 cocorite1796 groo-groo1796 borassus1798 cohune1805 traveller's tree1809 tucum1810 gomuti1811 taliera1814 lontar1820 salak1820 ground-rattan1823 geonoma1824 tucuma1824 nikau1827 wax-palm1830 murumuru1834 piassava1835 traveller's palm1850 bangalow1851 inajá palm1853 jacitara1853 peach palm1853 pupunha palm1853 jipijapa1858 urucuri1860 climbing palm1863 sea-apple1864 Alexandra palm1865 coquito1866 thatch1866 thatch-palm1866 açai1868 walking-stick palm1869 kentia1870 toquilla1877 Guadalupe palm1895 tortoiseshell palm1902 pimpler1909 1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 178 Palma spinosa minor... Prickly pole. 1789 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica (new ed.) 343 The prickly Pole. This slender tree is very common in the inland woods of Jamaica, and supplies the wild hogs with abundance of food. 1828 Ordinances of City of Kingston 107 No fence of penguins or prickly poles shall be made..within the said city. 1995 Brittonia 47 345/2 Early travellers in Jamaica, briefly described the indigeous Bactris populations, ‘Prickly Pole,’ in their accounts. prickly poppy n. any of various poppies, chiefly of tropical and subtropical America, which have spiny stems, leaves, and capsules and which constitute the genus Argemone (including the Mexican poppy, A. mexicana). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > Mexican poppy prickly poppy1648 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > allied flowers poppyOE horned poppy1548 yellow poppy1548 sea poppy1562 garden poppy1577 wind-rose1597 prickly poppy1648 squatmore1691 oriental poppy1731 Welsh poppy1731 infernal fig1760 Mexican poppy1811 Meconopsis1836 redcap1846 horn-poppy1851 squirrel-corn1856 eschscholtzia1857 dielytra1864 Dicentra1866 yellow thistle1866 turkey-corn1884 Shirley poppy1886 1648 J. Bobart Eng. Catal. at Poppy, in Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis Prickly poppy, Papaver Spinosum. 1712 Catal. Seeds Amer. Islands in J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. sig. cv Papaver, the white prickly Poppy, with the Hellebore Leaf, whose yellow or golden Juice purges dropsical Bodies. 1898 A. M. Davidson Calif. Plants 112 The prickly poppy will send out great white flowers with crumpled petals and a great many yellow stamens. 1997 Church Times 13 June 10/5 Last autumn I was sent some seed of the Devil's fig or prickly poppy, Argemone mexicana, by friends in New Zealand. ΚΠ 1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom III. 71 (heading) The Red Echimys (Prickly Rat of D'Azara). prickly rhubarb n. any of several large ornamental waterside plants of the genus Gunnera, including G. manicata and G. tinctoria, which have very large leaves borne on spiny stalks; cf. gunnera n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > foliage, house, or garden plants > [noun] > other ornamental plants milkwood1696 bignonia1719 Molucca balm1731 gunnera1789 lantana1791 aubrietia1829 zebrina1846 alocasia1858 billbergia1858 prickly thrift1866 bocconia1867 prickly rhubarb1895 prayer plant1951 1895 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 4) 500/2 Gunnera (Prickly Rhubarb).—South American plants remarkable for large and handsome foliage, somewhat resembling that of gigantic Rhubarb. 1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 217 Gunnera (Prickly Rhubarb)... Hardy herbaceous perennials. First introduced mid-nineteenth century. 2003 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 19 Jan. (Features section) 71 The bold-leaved prickly rhubarb, Gunnera manicata, is an amazing architectural plant that has huge, palm-like, deeply-veined leaves on stalks up to 8ft tall. prickly saltwort n. = Russian thistle n. at thistle n. Compounds 1; also called prickly glasswort. ΚΠ ?1785 Earl of Bute Bot. Tables II. 331 Prickly saltwort... Stems of 1 foot, straggling. Leaves rough, prickly. 1894 Times 3 Sept. 10/3 On the sandy shores of Britain may be found growing as a native species the prickly saltwort, Salsola kali. 1998 Journal (Newcastle) (Nexis) 20 Nov. 35 Some plants have leaves that are reduced to spines to reduce the amount of water lost by evaporation. A good example of a spiny plant is the prickly saltwort (Salsola kali). ΚΠ 1690 J. Ray Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. 72 Crithmum spinosum Ger... Prickly Samphire or Sea Parsnep. Observed by Mr. Lawson at Roosbeck in Low-Fourneis, Lancashire. 1723 J. Lewis Hist. & Antiq. Isle of Tenet 14 In a piece of Marsh land near Meregate..Botanists have observed, before it was overflown by the Sea.., prickly Samphire, or Sea-Parsnip. 1799 Lady C. Murray Brit. Garden I. 218 E. Spinosa. Prickly Samphire, or Sea Parsnep. Leaflets very entire, awl-shaped, ending in a thorn. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 120/2 Samphire, Prickly, Echinophora spinosa. prickly sculpin n. a sculpin or bullhead, Cottus asper, a fish which often has prickles on the body and occurs in freshwater and brackish estuaries in western North America; cf. prickly bullhead n. ΚΠ 1960 List Common & Sci. Names Fishes U.S. & Canada (Amer. Fisheries Soc. Special Publ. No. 2) (ed. 2) 38 Prickly sculpin... Cottus asper. 1967 Ecology 48 468 Larger juvenile P. stellatus, prickly sculpin (C. asper), and young sturgeon..are primarily bottom feeders that eat mostly amphipods and polychaetes. 2003 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News (Nexis) 11 May These fish invariably stick you when you pick them up. For this reason, one of the freshwater versions is known by the common name, prickly sculpin. prickly shield fern n. any of several shield ferns of the genus Polystichum; esp. P. aculeatum of Eurasia and North Africa, which has leathery fronds and distinctive bristle-toothed pinnules. ΚΠ 1804 J. E. Smith Flora Britannica III. 1123 Aspidium... Close-leaved Prickly Shield-fern. 1945 A. B. Jackson Step's Wayside & Woodland Ferns (new. ed.) 70 The Prickly Shield-fern..at a distance may be taken for the Male-fern, for the frond is similar in shape. 2003 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 15 June (Features section) 59 The soft shield fern has overlapping leaflets which give it a moss-like appearance, and then there's the prickly shield fern or Polystichum aculeatum, which has spiny projections on its leafy midrib. prickly tang n. Scottish (Orkney and Shetland) an olive-brown seaweed, the serrated wrack, Fucus serratus (family Fucaceae), common on British shores. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > fucus seaweeds > tangle hangera1483 tanglec1540 tang1547 sea-ragged-staff1633 tangle-wrack1721 sea-cabbage1764 prickly tang1795 yellow tang1809 tangle-weed1825 fucoid1848 saw-wrack1868 tangle-work1890 1795 Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVII. 233 The jagged or serrated sea-weed commonly known by the name of prickly tang in this country [sc. Orkney]. 1810 Edinb. Rev. 17 146 The prickly tang..often grows intermixed with the bladder-wrack. 2001 Scotsman (Nexis) 8 Dec. 17 Those seaweeds growing between high and low water mark are known as ‘tang’ whereas those growing at or below low tide are known as ‘ware.’ Tang and ware come in many forms—bow-tang, paddy-tang, prickly tang, mirkle, honey-ware, hen-ware. prickly withe n. Caribbean (Jamaican) (now rare) a night-blooming climbing cactus of the Caribbean, Hylocereus triangularis, which has triangular prickly stems. ΚΠ 1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 196 Ficus Indica folio triangulari ensiformi... Prickly With. 1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 155 Prickly Withe. This plant has several small roots sticking to the bark of trees. 1926 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica V. 280 Prickly Withe... Flowers opening at night, white... Fruit crimson. prickly yellow n. Caribbean any of several Caribbean trees of the genus Zanthoxylum, with spiny stems and yellow wood; esp. the yellow Hercules' club Z. caribaeum; the wood of any of these trees; cf. prickly yellowwood n., prickle-yellow n. at prickle n.1 Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1837 J. Macfadyen Flora Jamaica I. 194 Prickly Yellow... This is a valuable timber tree: the wood is yellow, and used in house building. 1926 Times 27 Oct. 17/5 Countless thousands of the August flight are annual migrants from the Bahamas, which come to feed on the prickly yellow and other berries of the Jamaican hills. 1951 Daily Gleaner (Kingston) 16 Aug. 3/1 Other types being brought into service are pearwood, prickly yellow, and light woods strong enough to work as a substitute [for cedar]. prickly yellowwood n. now rare = prickly yellow n. ΚΠ 1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 138 Prickly yellow wood. In sylvis campestribus Insulæ Jamaicæ. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 189 Zanthoxylum... Prickly Yellow-wood, or yellow Hercules. 1800 J. Elliot Med. pocket-bk. (ed. 5) 168 The powder of zanthoxylon, or prickly yellow wood, has been recommended as extremely efficacious in foul and inveterate ulcers. 1934 Daily Gleaner (Kingston) 16 Aug. 2/ The Acting Governor..made an order adding ‘Pepper Leaf Sweetwood’, ‘Burnose’ or wild Ackee and Prickly Yellow Wood to schedule A of that Law. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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