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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..

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

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

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

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

Bristle :: Bristle (v. t.) To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up..

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

Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Beset with stiff hairs or 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

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

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

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

Cleavers :: Cleavers (n.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc..

Setous :: Setous (a.) Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.

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..

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..

Bristle-shaped :: Bristle-shaped (a.) Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf..

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

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

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

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