thorny

Adjective
  1. Bristling with perplexities (synset 300752287)
    "the thorny question of states' rights"
    similar to: difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
  2. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. (synset 300146351)
    "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"
    similar to: armed - (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns
    same as: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny

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