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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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..

Acicular :: Acicular (a.) Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless..

Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles..

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..

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.

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..

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

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

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

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