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

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

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

Dustbrush :: Dustbrush (n.) A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Flytrap :: Flytrap (n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves..

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

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

Rictal :: Rictal (a.) Of or pertaining to the rictus; as, rictal bristles..

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

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..

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

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

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