1. (

• barb

) provide with barbs; "barbed wire" ;

1. (

• barbed ,
• biting ,
• nipping ,
• pungent ,
• mordacious

) capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire" ;

2. (

• barbed ,
• barbellate ,
• briary ,
• briery ,
• bristled ,
• bristly ,
• burred ,
• burry ,
• prickly ,
• setose ,
• setaceous ,
• spiny ,
• thorny

) 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" ;