Animals

Synonyms for bristly

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampAnimals

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

The plant's bristly stem pricked my fingers when I grabbed it.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

barbed

Same sentence, swapped: The plant's barbed stem pricked my fingers when I grabbed it.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for bristly as it is used in the sentence above.

pubescent
hirsute
fleecy

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Closest first: other animals words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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