Aculeus: alternatives and connections

A prickle.

Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.

Like a prickle.

A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red b…

To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.

To have a warm and delicate color, as some roses and other flowers.

Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate.

A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.

Full of brakes; abounding with brambles, shrubs, or ferns; rough; thorny.

The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together.

Overgrown with brambles.

Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles.

Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.

The bark of several species of Cinnamomum grown in China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinna…

An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.

To assume as a bearing; as, he charges three roses or; to add to or represent on; as, he charges his shield with three roses or.

The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.

Bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark.