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

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

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

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. t.) To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread..

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..

Style :: Style (v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects..

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

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

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

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

Berstle :: Berstle (n.) See Bristle.

Hispid :: Hispid (a.) Beset with stiff hairs or 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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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