noun
the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
• Syn: ↑prickliness, ↑bristliness, ↑thorniness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑thorny (for: ↑thorniness), ↑spiny, ↑bristly (for: ↑bristliness), ↑prickly (for: ↑prickliness)
• Hypernyms: ↑roughness, ↑raggedness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.