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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..

Setaceous :: Setaceous (a.) Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail..

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

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

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..

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whiskered :: Whiskered (a.) Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks..

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

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

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

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

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