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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

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

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

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

Rigidulous :: Rigidulous (a.) Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle..

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Rough with bristles or minute spines.

Barb :: Barb (n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.

Berstle :: Berstle (n.) See Bristle.

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

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

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

Cinura :: Cinura (n. pl.) The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma..

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