bristles (noun)
71barley — noun a hardy cereal with coarse bristles extending from the ears, cultivated chiefly for use in brewing and stockfeed. [Genus Hordeum.] Origin OE bærlic (adjective), from bære, bere barley + lic (see ly1) …
72beard — noun 1》 a growth of hair on the chin and lower cheeks of a man s face. ↘an animal s growth or marking that is likened to a beard, such as the gills of an oyster. ↘a tuft of hairs or bristles on certain plants. 2》 N. Amer. informal a woman …
73bristle worm — noun a marine annelid worm of a class including ragworms, lugworms, and fan worms, which have a segmented body with numerous bristles on the fleshy lobes of each segment. [Class Polychaeta.] …
74broom — noun 1》 a long handled brush of bristles or twigs, used for sweeping. 2》 a shrub typically having many yellow flowers, long, thin green stems, and small or few leaves. [Cytisus scoparius and many other species, especially in the genera Cytisus… …
75filbert — noun 1》 a cultivated oval hazelnut. 2》 the tree that bears filberts. [Corylus maxima and other species.] 3》 (also filbert brush) a brush with bristles forming a flattened oval head, used in oil painting. Origin ME fylberd, from Anglo Norman Fr.… …
76flat-top — noun 1》 a man s hairstyle in which the hair is cropped short so that it bristles up into a flat surface. 2》 an acoustic guitar that has a flat rather than a curved front. 3》 US informal an aircraft carrier …
77goosegrass — noun a widely distributed scrambling plant related to bedstraws, with hooked bristles on the stem, leaves, and seeds. [Galium aparine.] …
78wire brush — noun a brush with tough wire bristles for cleaning hard surfaces. ↘a brush with wire strands, used on cymbals to produce a soft metallic sound. verb (wire brush) clean with a wire brush …
79bristlegrass — noun grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet • Syn: ↑bristle grass • Hypernyms: ↑foxtail, ↑foxtail grass • Member Holonyms: ↑Setaria, ↑genus Setaria …
80Erignathus barbatus — noun medium sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean • Syn: ↑bearded seal, ↑squareflipper square flipper • Hypernyms: ↑earless seal, ↑true seal, ↑hair seal • Member Holonyms: ↑ …
