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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Example:
setaceous whiskers
Synonyms:
barbed; barbellate; briary; briery; bristled; bristly; burred; burry; prickly; setaceous; setose; spiny; thorny
Classified under:
Similar:
armed ((used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns)
Derivation:
briar (a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries)
