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

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

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..

Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors..

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

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

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

Setaceous :: Setaceous (a.) Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail..

Brustle :: Brustle (n.) A bristle.

Acicula :: Acicula (n.) One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal..

Brush :: Brush (n.) An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc..

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

Bristly :: Bristly (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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