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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

Brustle :: Brustle (n.) A bristle.

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

Setula :: Setula (n.) A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta..

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

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

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

Strigous :: Strigose (a.) Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf..

Rictal :: Rictal (a.) Of or pertaining to the rictus; as, rictal bristles..

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

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

Vibrissa :: Vibrissa (n.) The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.

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

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

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