Prickly plant Crossword Clue

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Prickly plant Crossword Answer

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BRIAR

(5 letters)

CACTUS

(6 letters)

CACTUS

(6 letters)

TEASEL

(6 letters)

GORSE

(5 letters)

THISTLE

(7 letters)

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
2. tangled mass of prickly plants

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PRICKLY (adjective)
1. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
2. very irritable
PLANT (noun)
1. (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
2. buildings for carrying on industrial labor
PLANT (verb)
1. put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
2. put firmly in the mind

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

BRIAR
(5 letters)
CACTUS
(6 letters)
Cactus
(6 letters)
TEASEL
(6 letters)
GORSE
(5 letters)
THISTLE
(7 letters)

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