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

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

Vibrissa :: Vibrissa (n.) The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brush Wheel :: Brush wheel () A wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference..

Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles..

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

Pappus :: Pappus (n.) The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositae; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order..

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

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

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

Bristle-pointed :: Bristle-pointed (a.) Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves..

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

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

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