Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PRICK'LE
PRICK'LE, n.
- In botany, a small pointed shoot or sharp process, growing from the bark only, and thus distinguished from the thorn, which grows from the wood of a plant. Thus the rose, the bramble, the gooseberry and the barberry are armed with prickles. – Martyn.
- A share pointed process of an animal.
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