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barbed

English

  1. 🔊 having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
    “a horse with a short bristly mane”
  2. 🔊 capable of wounding
    “a barbed compliment”

Similar words

barbellate briary briery bristled bristly burred burry prickly setose setaceous spiny thorny biting nipping pungent mordacious acanthoid acanthous acicular acuate aculeate aculeiform acuminate acute