Found 4 items, similar to thorny.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: thorny
berduri
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: thorny
berduri, cerancang, cerangah
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: thorny
thorny
adj 1: bristling with perplexities;
“the thorny question of states'
rights”
2: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines
or thorns or setae etc.;
“a horse with a short bristly
mane”;
“bristly shrubs”;
“burred fruits”;
“setaceous
whiskers” [syn:
barbed,
barbellate,
briary,
briery,
bristled,
bristly,
burred,
burry,
prickly,
setose,
setaceous,
spiny]
[also:
thorniest,
thornier]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Thorny
Thorny
\Thorn"y\, a. [Compar.
Thornier; superl.
Thorniest.]
[Cf. AS. [thorn]orniht.]
1. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a
thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.
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2. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome;
vexatious; harassing; perplexing.
“The thorny point of
bare distress.” --Shak.
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The steep and thorny way to heaven. --Shak.
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Thorny rest-harrow (Bot.), rest-harrow.
Thorny trefoil, a prickly plant of the genus
Fagonia
(
Fagonia Cretica, etc.).
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