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Abounding in prickly plants
Answer for the clue "Abounding in prickly plants ", 7 letters:
thistly
Word definitions for thistly in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thistly \This"tly\, a. Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground. Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking. In such a world, so thorny, and where none Finds happiness unblighted, or, if found, Without some thistly sorrow at its side. --Cowper. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Covered in thistles.
Usage examples of thistly.
I drove the car a little way up the thistly path to get it off the road.
Field: she weeded, hoed, and picked until the sky and air whirled brown and thistly around her, and her small fingers moved, delicately plucking so as not to get pricked, even in her sleep.
It was a thornwing, a crumpled mass of thistly, snarled twine with a tiny hooked head at the crest of its amorphous shape.