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Strigine :: Strigillose (a.) Set with stiff, slender 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

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

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

Setiferous :: Setiferous (a.) Producing, or having one or more, bristles..

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..

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

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

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

Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Setigerous :: Setigerous (a.) Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setae; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically (Bot.), tipped with a bristle..

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

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

Stare :: Stare (v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.

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