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Maybe I was too prickly about Lemann's treatment of the California Civil Rights Initiative, but let me explain why.
Not to be outdone in creativity, the natural science entries offer pollynose, prickly pig, puppy toes, Quaker bonnet, railroad Annie, and sac-a-lait, among many, many others.
prickly pig a porcupine
In other respects, too, they evince a "prickly xenophobic nationalism."
The coast road east passes the town of Guatiza, where prickly pears abound and where cochineal beetles are still cultivated (see page 19).