barbed

/'bɑ:bd/
Adjective
  1. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
    • a horse with a short bristly mane
    • bristly shrubs
    • burred fruits
    • setaceous whiskers
  2. capable of wounding
    • a barbed compliment
    • a biting aphorism
    • pungent satire

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A gardener carefully trims a barbed rose bush.