prickly poppy

Much of the explanation is personal—the reserved, sometimes prickly politico has never been well-liked.

With a prickly heat suffusing my whole body and a melting sensation at the collar I struggled through the wretched lyric once.

California seemed less like a voluptuous leviathan blowing poppy-dust that blunted the memory of all things beyond her borders.

Gives much, but claims all, and he who would open the poppy-gates must close the door of ambition and bid farewell to manhood.

It bears beautiful yellow blossoms in summer, after which comes the fruit, a prickly pear, not good to eat.

Another kind of cactus has crimson and scarlet blossoms, but no prickly pears.