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

Setigerous :: Setigerous (a.) Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setae; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically (Bot.), tipped with a bristle..

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

Brustle :: Brustle (n.) A bristle.

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

Pencil :: Pencil (n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors..

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

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

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

Frontlet :: Frontlet (n.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles..

Styliferous :: Stylet (n.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain Infusoria..

Stare :: Stare (v. i.) To stand out; to project; to bristle.

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

Brustle :: Brustle (v. i.) To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.

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

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