2. Noun. (Ulster) gooseflesh ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of prickle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prickles
1. prickle [v] - See also: prickle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prickles
Literary usage of Prickles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"Low upright shrub, l!a ft. high: branches covered with straight prickles and ...
A. prickles in pairs at the base of petioles : branches glabrous. в. ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"dish in color, with the petiolules provided with small but very distinct recurved
prickles. The leaflets are about 48 mm. long and 24 broad, with a cordate ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Upright, mostly low shrubs: sts. slender, with usually straight prickles, ...
prickles straight or nearly so: Ifts. dull above 30. Carolina AA. ..."
4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"R. , Internodes and petioles with few prickles or unarmed. mature ... R, t prickles
on the faces as well as the angle's of the stem ; leaf. ..."
5. The American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure, Life by Alphonso Wood (1875)
"prickles slender Nos. Il, là 5§ Styles separate.—с Stipules nearly free, and caducous
... Wild R. Stems reddish with very numerous reddish prickles ; Ifts. ..."
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