Difference between Prickly and Thorny

PRICKLY vs THORNY: ADJECTIVE

Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Having prickles.
Prickling or tingling or smarting.
Causing trouble or vexation; thorny.
Bristling or irritable.
A noncontagious cutaneous eruption of red pimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the parts affected. It is due to inflammation of the sweat glands, and is often brought on by overheating the skin in hot weather.
A name given to several plants of the cactaceous genus Opuntia, American plants consisting of fleshy, leafless, usually flattened, and often prickly joints inserted upon each other. The sessile flowers have many petals and numerous stamens. The edible fruit is a large pear-shaped berry containing many flattish seeds. The common species of the Northern Atlantic States is Opuntia vulgaris. In the South and West are many others, and in tropical America more than a hundred more. Opuntia vulgaris, Opuntia Ficus-Indica, and Opuntia Tuna are abundantly introduced in the Mediterranean region, and Opuntia Dillenii has become common in India.
A West Indian palm (Bactris Plumierana), the slender trunk of which bears many rings of long black prickles.
A West Indian cactaceous plant (Cereus triangularis) having prickly, slender, climbing, triangular stems.
Any one of several species of South American burrowing rodents belonging to Ctenomys and allied genera. The hair is usually intermingled with sharp spines.
Covered with sharp points.
Very irritable
Easily irritated.

Bristling with perplexities
Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Having many thorns or abounding in thorn-covered vegetation.
Spiny or prickly.
Controversial, problematic, or vexatious.
Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny.
Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.
Rest-harrow.
A prickly plant of the genus Fagonia (Fagonia Cretica, etc.).
Having thorns or spines
Troublesome or vexatious

Pear, Ill natured, Barbellate, Briery, Burry, Armed, Burred, Briary, Spiny, Bristled, Splenetic, Waspish, Barbed, Bristly, Thorny

Vexing, Briery, Knotty, Barbellate, Armed, Burred, Burry, Bristled, Hard, Briary, Spiny, Barbed, Bristly, Difficult, Prickly

Pear, Ill natured, Barbellate, Briery, Burry, Armed, Burred, Briary, Spiny, Bristled, Splenetic, Waspish, Barbed, Bristly, Thorny

Vexing, Knotty, Briery, Barbellate, Armed, Burred, Burry, Bristled, Hard, Briary, Spiny, Barbed, Bristly, Difficult, Prickly

Gruff and prickly, Williams had an explosive temper.
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But his tone was still grudging and prickly.
Cactus because I can be prickly at times.
London seedsman one thousand roots of prickly comfrey.
Tree bearing prickly fruit with a stratwberry flavor.
This separation, based in higher numbers of genetic differences, could indicate reproductive isolation between the Clear Lake prickly and the other prickly.
It is characterized by red bumps and prickly or itchy sensation on the skin prickly heat.
Perhaps the best known prickly invader is Prickly Pear.
In the prickly clade, Clear Lake prickly were more distant from the San Joaquin and Smith River prickly.

The problem of demobilization was a thorny one.
Deserts have low rainfall and thorny woody plants.
These thorny plants grow as vines and shrubs.
Translation rights also represent a potentially thorny area.
With kitchen shears, trim thorny tips of leaves.
We know the thorny places in our lives.
Rehnquist made short work of that thorny issue.
Just a second, many thorny problems go normal.
Palestine presented some very thorny and difficult questions.
Diana Thorny-Croft Thorny - Croft uses photographs to investigate the human body as a site for psychic and physical turmoil and damage.