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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Bristle-shaped :: Bristle-shaped (a.) Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf..

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.

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

Acicular :: Acicular (a.) Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needless..

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

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

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

Bristly :: Bristly (a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough..

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

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..

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

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

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