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Setiferous :: Setiferous (a.) Producing, or having one or more, bristles..

Bristle-shaped :: Bristle-shaped (a.) Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf..

Rugged :: Rugged (n.) Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.

Verriculate :: Verriculate (a.) Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches..

Wart Hog :: Wart hog () Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch/rus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane. The South African species (Phacoch/rus Aethiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (P. Aeliani) is native of the coasts of

Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..

Hog :: Hog (v. t.) To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse..

Stuccoes :: Stubby (a.) Short and thick; short and strong, as bristles..

Barbet :: Barbet (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa..

Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Beset with stiff hairs or bristles.

Awn :: Awn (n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista..

Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles..

Bristliness :: Bristliness (n.) The quality or state of having bristles.

Seta :: Seta (n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss..

Birse :: Birse (n.) A bristle or bristles.

Glochidiate :: Glochidiate (a.) Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles..

Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors..

Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.

Chaetotaxy :: Chaetotaxy (n.) The arrangement of bristles on an insect.

Hirsute :: Hirsute (a.) Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.

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