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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bristled :: Bristled (imp. & p. p.) of Bristl.

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

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

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

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..

Strigous :: Strigose (a.) Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf..

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..

Birse :: Birse (n.) A bristle or bristles.

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..

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

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

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