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Covered with protective barbs
Answer for the clue "Covered with protective barbs ", 6 letters:
briary
Alternative clues for the word briary
Word definitions for briary in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Like a briar; thorny.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed , barbellate , briery , bristled , bristly , burred , burry ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
briary \briary\ adj. 1. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc.; -- of plants or animals. Syn: barbed, barbellate, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, spiny, thorny.
Usage examples of briary.
Place next to where I was fostered at your age, old Lady Cedrys at Briary Holding.
Job Caudle was left in this briary world without his daily guide and nocturnal monitress, he was in the ripe fulness of fifty-seven.
A rosebush grew at the foot of the tower: a hybrid, half wild rose, half Cuisse de Nymphe, with twelve petals and briary canes.
Place next to where I was fostered at your age, old Lady Cedrys at Briary Holding.
A rosebush grew at the foot of the tower: a hybrid, half wild rose, half Cuisse de Nymphe, with twelve petals and briary canes.