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Perigynium :: Perigynium (n.) Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceae..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Drosera :: Drosera (n.) A genus of low perennial or biennial plants, the leaves of which are beset with gland-tipped bristles. See Sundew..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bisetous :: Bisetous (a.) Having two bristles.

Rugged :: Rugged (n.) Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.

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

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