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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..

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

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

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

Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair..

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

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

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

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

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

Berstle :: Berstle (n.) See 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..

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

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

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

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..

Brustle :: Brustle (n.) A bristle.

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

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

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

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