Prickly vs. Thistle

Pricklyadjective

Covered with sharp points.

Pricklyadjective

Easily irritated.

Pricklyadjective

Difficult; complicated; (figuratively) hairy or thorny.

Pricklyadverb

In a prickly manner.

Pricklynoun

(colloquial) Something that gives a pricking sensation; a sharp object.

Pricklyadjective

Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.

Pricklyadjective

very irritable;

Pricklyadjective

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.;

Thistlenoun

Any of several perennial composite plants, especially of genera Cirsium, Carduus, Cynara, or Onopordum, having prickly leaves and showy flower heads with prickly bracts.

Thistlenoun

This plant seen as the national emblem of Scotland.

Thistlenoun

(heraldry) This plant used as a charge.

Thistlenoun

The Order of the Thistle, or membership thereof.

Thistlenoun

Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants.

Thistlenoun

any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves

Thistle

Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. Prickles can also occur all over the plant – on the stem and on the flat parts of the leaves.