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O Dillenii
Prickly Prick"ly, a. Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. Prickly ash (Bot.), a prickly shrub (Xanthoxylum Americanum) with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species is X. Carolinianum. --Gray. Prickly heat (Med.), a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of red pimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the parts affected. It is due to inflammation of the sweat glands, and is often brought on by overheating the skin in hot weather. Prickly pear (Bot.), a name given to several plants of the cactaceous genus Opuntia, American plants consisting of fleshy, leafless, usually flattened, and often prickly joints inserted upon each other. The sessile flowers have many petals and numerous stamens. The edible fruit is a large pear-shaped berry containing many flattish seeds. The common species of the Northern Atlantic States is Opuntia vulgaris. In the South and West are many others, and in tropical America more than a hundred more. O. vulgaris, O. Ficus-Indica, and O. Tuna are abundantly introduced in the Mediterranean region, and O. Dillenii has become common in India. Prickly pole (Bot.), a West Indian palm (Bactris Plumierana), the slender trunk of which bears many rings of long black prickles. Prickly withe (Bot.), a West Indian cactaceous plant (Cereus triangularis) having prickly, slender, climbing, triangular stems. Prickly rat (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of South American burrowing rodents belonging to Ctenomys and allied genera. The hair is usually intermingled with sharp spines.

Meaning of Dillenii from wikipedia

- Oxalis dillenii, the southern wood-sorrel, slender yellow woodsorrel, or Dillen's oxalis, is a species in the woodsorrel family. Like other Oxalis species...
- Opuntia dillenii is a species of prickly pear native to the tropical and subtropical Americas. It is naturalized in many other parts of the world. It differs...
- Veronica dillenii, commonly known as Dillenius' speedwell, is a species of flowering plant in the speedwell genus Veronica, family Plantaginaceae. It is...
- referred to Desmodium dillenii as Dillenius's Desmodium. In 1950, the American botanist Bernice Schubert rejected Desmodium dillenii Darl. as a nomen confusum...
- dehradunensis Oxalis depressa Oxalis dichondrifolia – peonyleaf wood sorrel Oxalis dillenii Jacquin – southern yellow woodsorrel, Dillen's woodsorrel, Sus**** yellow-sorrel...
- bartramii Raf. Opuntia bentonii Griffiths Opuntia dillenii var. reitzii Scheinvar Opuntia dillenii var. tehuantepecana Bravo Opuntia inermis (DC.) DC...
- dabneyi, Azores speedwell Veronica derwentiana, Derwent speedwell Veronica dillenii, Dillenius' speedwell Veronica diosmifolia Veronica filiformis, slender...
- corniculata * Least yellow-sorrel Oxalis exilis * Sus**** yellow-sorrel Oxalis dillenii * Upright yellow-sorrel Oxalis stricta * Fleshy yellow-sorrel Oxalis megalorrhiza...
- taxon known as Desmodium dillenii Darl. As "the least clearly understood species of the genus", Schubert declared Desmodium dillenii to be a nomen confusum...
- as naturalised in Australia: Opuntia aurantiaca Opuntia dejecta Opuntia dillenii Opuntia elata Opuntia elatior Opuntia engelmannii Opuntia ficus-indica...