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

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..

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..

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

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..

Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.

Barbet :: Barbet (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa..

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..

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..

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

Rigidulous :: Rigidulous (a.) Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle..

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

Fibre :: fibre () A tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. The piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name.

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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