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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Brustle :: Brustle (v. i.) To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.

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

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

Awn :: Awn (n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista..

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

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

Stare :: Stare (v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.

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

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..

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

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.

Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.

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