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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..

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

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

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

Styliferous :: Stylet (n.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria..

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

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

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

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

Brustle :: Brustle (n.) A bristle.

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

Thysanura :: Thysanura (n. pl.) An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Awned :: Awned (a.) Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded..

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

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