spiny vs prickly

spiny and prickly both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
spiny	No	Yes	No	No
prickly	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, spiny and prickly are synonyms defined as:

spiny and prickly: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

Other synonyms of spiny include barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, thorny.

spiny (adjective)	prickly (adjective)
having spines	having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.	very irritable