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Ctenostomata :: Ctenostomata (n. pl.) A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles..

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

Stare :: Stare (v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.

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..

Bristletail :: Bristletail (n.) An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura..

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

Bisetous :: Bisetous (a.) Having two bristles.

Style :: Style (v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects..

Bristled :: Bristled (imp. & p. p.) of Bristl.

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

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

Setaceous :: Setaceous (a.) Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail..

Pappus :: Pappus (n.) The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositae; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order..

Frontlet :: Frontlet (n.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles..

Perigynium :: Perigynium (n.) Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceae..

Lepisma :: Lepisma (n.) A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug..

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

Cleavers :: Cleavers (n.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc..

Whiskered :: Whiskered (a.) Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks..

Horrent :: Horrent (a.) Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling..

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