| It is erect and rigid, light green in color slightly shaded reddish brown, fairly tomentous and glandular, and bearing some tiny prickles. |
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| Similar to the color traits, plant prickles were also evaluated for individual organs including stem, leaf, and flower and fruit calyxes. |
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| When mixed in among boundary plants it may even enhance security as the branches bear hooked prickles which reduce its tactility. |
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| They made their way through the hedges, Valerie being careful to avoid the painful prickles of the thorns. |
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| Well, it is a type of plant that has small leaves and long prickles, and it blooms some small red flowers. |
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| Earlier he tried pushing his nose against it and it had felt all prickly even though he couldn't see any prickles. |
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| I reached out a hand and grabbed a berry, scratching my hand slightly on the prickles. |
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| The first stage is rapid, vigorous growth characterized by unusually dense formation of prickles on stems and canes. |
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| Structurally, therefore, leaf prickles of A. spinosa resemble the stem prickles of this species as described by Davies and White. |
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| Its name reflects the fact that its back bears numerous prickles and thorns sticking up from button-like bases known as bucklers. |
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| Its short binate leaves, the persistent long prickles of its cone, and its tough branches, combine to distinguish this Tine from its associates. |
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| The epidermis of prickles was found to be highly lignified and covered with a thick cuticle. |
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| I had just buckled up when I felt the tiny prickles of anxiety that are the first signs of approaching panic. |
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| Due to the similarity in function among thorns, spines, and prickles, we will generically refer to all plants bearing them as armed. |
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| It outcompetes forage grasses, and its thornlike prickles pose a threat to workers picking vegetable crops in infested areas. |
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| A wave of prickles traveled down her spine, forcing her to shudder on the spot. |
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| For permanent use as protection against dirt on damp days and for all garden work involving confrontation with prickles and thorns. |
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| The bristly hair in your mustache prickles my skin, itching a bit. |
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| The fleece is so cut that the wool around the base of the legs and backside runs in a continuous line, from which it is easy to strip the dags, the stains and the prickles. |
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| Smooth blackberry has canes that are smooth or have only scattered, straight prickles. |
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| Flea larvae will latch onto something and hold on with their tiny prickles, so preventing them from being sucked up. |
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| Itches, prickles, pruritus, twinges, pangs, stitches, aches, pains and throes are all increasingly rude orders to groom specific places. |
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| Large hips covered with stiff prickles. The bark flakes with age, giving an unusual effect. 7 ft. x 7 ft. |
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| Water droplets festoon twigs and prickles and add tiny glints of potential brilliance to the gloom. |
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| Due to the proposed similarity in function among thorns, spines, and prickles, we will hereafter generically refer to all plants bearing them as armed. |
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| All are feathers just different forms in that same way that dog fur, rhino horn and hedgehog prickles are as much hair as that on your head. |
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| If thorns, spines, prickles, and trichomes are the spear brigade, idioblasts are the landmines. |
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| Dewberry plants are low-growing perennials and are often heavily armed with prickles. |
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| The distinctive, colourless animal with white prickles, red eyes and pink feet is being treated with antibiotics at the Withington Hedgehog Hospital on Parsonage Road. |
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| The air is warm and soupy and prickles my shoulders as I wait. |
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| Additionally, plants such as Rosa multiflora Thunb. exhibited different colors of prickles both among individual plants and on different stem segments of an individual plant. |
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| Unlike thorns, prickles are actually pointed protuberances from a plant's epidermis. |
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| The thickened lamina and stiffer tissues that make up veins may, therefore, provide increased mechanical support for the leaf prickles of A. spinosa. |
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| Sometimes he has headaches that feel like prickles in the top of his head and he also feels a bit dizzy. |
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| Young shoots are quite densely covered with purplish-brown fairly large prickles. |
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| The details of the animals and plants, such as the scales on the alligator or the prickles on the cacti, are rendered with naturalistic precision. |
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| Once, Andersson's attitude towards this tortured pageant of shabby humanity seemed to be a wan compassion, a kind of fellow feeling for their anxiety and bewilderment, albeit with sharp prickles of disdain. |
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| Young shoots are very densely covered with small purplish-brown prickles. |
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| I will grasp the mountain-hedgehog, prickles and all, with my steel-gauntlet. |
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| Erect annual herb, poisonous and bearing numerous prickles. |
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| The skyscraper makes a strikingly beautiful centrepiece for Downtown Dubai, a business-cum-residential complex where what was a patch of dust now prickles with cranes and sparkling new high-rises. |
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| Hybrids without prickles have been developed. |
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| The attraction-repulsion sensation that causes at the same time the beauty of the sea urchin and its protection prickles is perfectly transgressed in its sculptures. |
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| Nowadays, R. banksiae Alba Plena or Zéphirine-Drouhin are sarmentose roses, without prickles, which produce full, pink-coloured flowers with a highly pronounced scent and which can be remontant, depending on the climate. |
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| So many things, however, are a genuine heartbalm like the prickles of the Pleiades rising on the night. |
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| And, as a picture is worth a thousand words, he published four botanical plates as aids to description based on prickles and the forms of flowers, fruits and leaves. |
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| Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the family Asteraceae. |
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| Prickles on the adaxial and abaxial leaflet surfaces of A. spinosa are associated with all reticulate vein orders. |
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