spiky
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Of a plant: producing spikes (“ears (as of corn); inflorescences in which sessile flowers are arranged on unbranched elongated axes”).
- Of a plant part: resembling a spike of a plant (see above).
- Having one or more spikes; spiny.
- Resembling spikes: erect and having sharp points; spikelike.
- Of a person or their nature: difficult to deal with; abrasive, hostile, unfriendly.
- Of a thing: not smooth; rough, sharp.
- Excessively high church (“practising a formal style of liturgy and emphasizing continuity with Catholicism”).
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