Thesaurus: thorny

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1. superl. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.
2. superl. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.
3. adj. bristling with perplexities
4. adj. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
5. 1. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown. 2. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. "The thorny point of bare distress." Shak. The steep and thorny way to heaven. Shak. Thorny rest-harrow (Bot.), rest-harrow. -- Thorny trefoil, a prickly plant of the genus Fagonia (F. Cretica, etc.).
6. j:100 s. bristling with perplexities