Definitions for: Thorny


[adj] having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"
[adj] bristling with perplexities; "the thorny question of states' rights"



Webster (1913) Definition: Thorn"y, a. [Compar. Thornier; superl. Thorniest.]
[Cf. AS. [thorn]orniht.]
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.).

Synonyms: armed, barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, difficult, hard, prickly, spiny

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