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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

Setula :: Setula (n.) A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta..

Crow :: Crow (v. i.) A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking note. See Caw..

Bristled :: Bristled (imp. & p. p.) of Bristl.

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

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

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

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..

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

Vibrissa :: Vibrissa (n.) The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.

Bristliness :: Bristliness (n.) The quality or state of having bristles.

Awned :: Awned (a.) Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded..

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

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..

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