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Prickly rat
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 Prickly rat from wikipedia

- pack rat or packrat, also called a woodrat or trade rat, are any species in the North and Central American rodent genus Neotoma. Pack rats have a rat-like...
- gr**** (Chloris cucullata), as well as prickly pear (Opuntia). The po****tion trend of the Gulf Coast kangaroo rat appears to be steady and no particular...
- The hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus) is a rat long thought to occur in parts of South America, Central America, and southern North America. However...
- mimosa, sugar sumac, prickly pear, and desert spoon. These plants often have long foliage growing at their bases, and the cotton rat uses these for cover...
- variety of habitats, ranging from semiarid scrub to cultivated gardens. Prickly Acanthocarpus plants, which are unaccommodating for humans and other relatively...
- gr****, weeds, patches of low thornbrush, prickly pear and other species of cactus. Phillips's kangaroo rat is nocturnal and lives in a burrow by day...
- muscle on their back to hide their head, legs, and belly in a coat of prickly erect spines. Hedgehogs are primarily nocturnal, though some may be crepuscular...
- Retrieved 16 February 2020. Moss, Laura (1 April 2019). "Hedgehogs are a prickly issue in some states". treehugger.com. Archived from the original on 18...
- The desert woodrat (Neotoma lepida) is a species of pack rat native to desert regions of western North America. Desert woodrats are relatively small for...
- web mashed potatoes, cauldron curry Dessert: haunted gingerbread house, prickly pears, chocolate stuffed creepy crawlies, meringue bones Contestants: Edwin...