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Prickle

noun
1.
A small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf.  Synonyms: pricker, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn.



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"Prickle" Quotes from Famous Books



... from 2 to 6 cm. long, in fascicles of 1 to 5, the sheath-scales revolute at the apex, then deciduous; stomata ventral, or ventral and dorsal; resin-ducts external. Scales of the conelet armed with a minute prickle. Cones from 4 to 6 cm. long, subglobose, subsessile; apophyses lustrous ochre-yellow, crowned with a quadrilateral umbo bearing the minute prickle of the conelet; seed flaxen yellow when fresh, its testa bare, the spermoderm ...
— The Genus Pinus • George Russell Shaw

... my sword solely by the feel of his against it, and I underwent chilling qualms lest presently, without in the least knowing how it got there, I should find his point sticking out of my back. I could hardly believe he was not hitting me; I began to prickle in half a dozen places, and knew not whether the stings were real or imaginary. But one was not imaginary; my shoulder which Lucas had pinked and the doctor bandaged was throbbing painfully. I fancied that in my earlier combat the wound had opened again and that I was bleeding to death; ...
— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle

... when I was a little bit of a girl, that I would be a missionary, but I should perfectly hate it now!" said Mary, with great vehemence. "I just hate to go to Sunday-school and be asked the questions; it makes me prickle all over. I always feel sorry when I wake up and find it is Sunday morning. I suppose you think that's heathen ...
— Betty Leicester - A Story For Girls • Sarah Orne Jewett



Words linked to "Prickle" :   glochid, aculeus, prickling, pierce, needle, sting, twinge, itch, prickly, glochidium



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