Akademik

briary

adjective

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, ↑briery, ↑bristled, ↑bristly, ↑burred, ↑burry, ↑prickly, ↑setose, ↑setaceous, ↑spiny, ↑thorny

• Similar to: ↑armed

• Derivationally related forms:

↑thorniness (for: ↑thorny), ↑thorn (for: ↑thorny), ↑spininess (for: ↑spiny), ↑seta (for: ↑setaceous), ↑prickle (for: ↑prickly), ↑prickliness (for: ↑prickly), ↑burr (for: ↑burry), ↑bristliness (for: ↑bristly), ↑bristle (for: ↑bristly), ↑briar, ↑barbel (for: ↑barbellate)

Useful english dictionary. 2012.