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

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

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

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

Berstle :: Berstle (n.) See Bristle.

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Bristle :: Bristle (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine..

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

Setous :: Setous (a.) Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.

Bristle :: Bristle (v. t.) To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up..

Bristletail :: Bristletail (n.) An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura..

Brustle :: Brustle (n.) A bristle.

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

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