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

Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine..

Fibre :: fibre () A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.

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

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..

Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair..

Setula :: Setula (n.) A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta..

Bristle :: Bristle (v. t.) To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread..

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

Piliferous :: Piliferous (a.) Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair..

Setulose :: Setulose (a.) Having small bristles or setae.

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

Strigine :: Strigillose (a.) Set with stiff, slender bristles..

Vibrissa :: Vibrissa (n.) The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.

Bristle :: Bristle (v. t.) To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up..

Drosera :: Drosera (n.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew..

Brush Wheel :: Brush wheel () A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference..

Strigous :: Strigose (a.) Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf..

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..

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