noun
the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
• Syn: ↑prickliness, ↑spininess, ↑thorniness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑thorny (for: ↑thorniness), ↑spiny (for: ↑spininess), ↑bristly, ↑prickly (for: ↑prickliness)
• Hypernyms: ↑roughness, ↑raggedness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.