prickly

adverb C2

In a prickly manner.

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Then they began to pass around the dusky, piquant, Arlesian sausages, and lobsters in their dazzling red cuirasses, prawns of large size and brilliant color, the echinus with its prickly outside and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster, North.

The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 25 · C1

Other matches

prickly Covered with sharp points. B2
prickly Something that gives a pricking sensation C2

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