prickly vs spinose

prickly

adj
  • Difficult; complicated; hairy or thorny. 

  • Covered with sharp points. 

  • Easily irritated. 

noun
  • Something that gives a pricking sensation; a sharp object. 

adv
  • In a prickly manner. 

spinose

adj
  • Having spines 

How often have the words prickly and spinose occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )