thorny

Having many thorns or abounding in thorn-covered vegetation.

Spiny or prickly.

Controversial, problematic, or vexatious.

Abounding in or covered with thorns; producing thorns; prickly; spiny.

Characteristic of or resembling a thorn; sharp; irritating; painful.

In zoology, spinous; prickly; echinate.

Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny.

Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.

rest-harrow.

a prickly plant of the genus Fagonia (Fagonia Cretica, etc.).