Definition of bristle

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

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Setulose :: Setulose (a.) Having small bristles or setae.
Bristle-pointed :: Bristle-pointed (a.) Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves..
Bristliness :: Bristliness (n.) The quality or state of having bristles.
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..
Bisetous :: Bisetous (a.) Having two bristles.
Whiskered :: Whiskered (a.) Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks..
Acicular :: Acicular (a.) Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless..
Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair..
Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..
Setula :: Setula (n.) A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta..
Bristle :: Bristle (v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.
Rugged :: Rugged (n.) Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.
Brustle :: Brustle (n.) A bristle.
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
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..
Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine..
Flytrap :: Flytrap (n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves..
Chaetotaxy :: Chaetotaxy (n.) The arrangement of bristles on an insect.
Bristle :: Bristle (v. t.) To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread..
Bristly :: Bristly (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough..
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