prickly

Modifies a noun

• sow-thistle: Prickly sow-thistle can be found in fruit for 3 months of the year.
• pear: Some of these topics will be followed up - for example on prickly pear.
• cactus: On the small land trail, the main feature is the unique giant prickly pear cactus.
• thistle: Its beak is long and narrow enough to extract seeds from prickly thistles, on which it is often seen feeding.
• shrub: Also, judicious planting of prickly shrubs can deter access.
• bush: Stunted trees like olives, and prickly bushes dotted the valley sides here and there.

Modifying Another Word

• very: Climb the crack to the holly, which now looks very prickly!
• rather: I caught my foot on some rather prickly undergrowth which split the top of the boot.
• extremely: I might resort to extremely prickly plants round the edge.
• little: If they sound a little prickly for you, don't worry.
• too: Alan Shearer was too prickly, Nigel Mansell too dull.
• so: But what I don't understand is why digital converts get so prickly whenever anyone points out the limitations of digital imaging?

Used with adjective complement

• get: But what I don't understand is why digital converts get so prickly whenever anyone points out the limitations of digital imaging?
• become: It meant I could cover up when the cloud came in, or if the undergrowth became prickly.