The external surfaces of plants often carry spiky hairs known as trichomes, which either prevent feeding by insects or may even puncture and kill insect larvae.
Me at five, dark spiky hair, moon pale with brown almost Slavic eyes, wiry, coltish.
The two men physically resemble each other, with long faces, strong jaws, and spiky haircuts.
With his spiky hair and ripped T-shirt, Hamilton could be a rugged glaciologist straight from central casting.
And when he speaks I need to move - even if that means moving into territory that is the spiritual equivalent of a bright, spiky hairdo that very few people can pull off.
The 22-year-old shocked team mates and Japan coach Takeshi Okada with his spiky hairdo on the eve of his country's Kirin Cup friendly in Osaka.
With his spiky hair, he looks like a Hong Kong pop idol.
At first, he slept heavily, but, by degrees, began to roll and surge in bed, until he rose above the surface, with his spiky hair looking as if it must tear the sheets to ribbons.
'I can still remember exactly what went through my mind: he's so big, he has orange spiky hair and he's married to a Kennedy.
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