When working through “Prickly plant”, these entries offer direction based on repeated appearances in puzzles that featured a similar clue layout, wording style, and solving logic.
Suggested Answers:
- GORSE
- CACTUS
- CACTI
- TEASEL
- THISTLE
- BRAMBLE
- NETTLE
- LOGANBERRY
- BRIAR
- BRIER
- HOLLY
- ACANTHUS
- THORN
Synonyms and Definitions
GORSE
- Synonyms: furze, irish gorse, ulex europaeus, whin
TEASEL
- Synonyms: teasle, teazel
NETTLE
- Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, rag, rile, urticate, vex
- Definition: Numerous plants, particularly those belonging to the Urtica genus or Urticaceae family, have stinging hairs that cause skin irritation upon touch.
LOGANBERRY
- Synonyms: rubus loganobaccus, rubus ursinus loganobaccus
BRIAR
- Synonyms: briar pipe, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, eglantine, erica arborea, greenbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, rosa eglanteria, smilax rotundifolia, sweetbriar, sweetbrier, tree heath
BRIER
- Synonyms: briar, brier patch, brierpatch
THORN
- Synonyms: irritant, pricker, prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker
These answers also appear in the following pages:
- CACTUS also appears as an answer in Spiny plant crossword clue 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 letters.
- CACTI also appears as an answer in Prickly pears, e.g. crossword clue 5 letters.
- NETTLE also appears as an answer in Vex crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 letters.
- NETTLE also appears as an answer in Annoy crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9 letters.
- NETTLE also appears as an answer in Bug crossword clue 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 letters.