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Horrent :: Horrent (a.) Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ctenostomata :: Ctenostomata (n. pl.) A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles..

Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..

Bisetous :: Bisetous (a.) Having two bristles.

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.

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..

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..

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

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..

Cinura :: Cinura (n. pl.) The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma..

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

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