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

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

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

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.

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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