bristled
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
Similar word(s): armed, barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny
verb
1. simple past tense and past participle of bristle