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English to English adjective
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Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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bristling with perplexities | | Example: the thorny question of states' rights
source: wordnet30
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having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | | Example: a horse with a short bristly mane
bristly shrubs
burred fruits
setaceous whiskers
source: wordnet30
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