bristles (noun)

  • 81genus Antennaria — noun small woolly perennial herbs having small whitish discoid flowers surrounded by a ring of club shaped bristles • Syn: ↑Antennaria • Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑ …

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  • 82genus Cnidoscolus — noun a genus of perennial plant with bristles; belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae • Syn: ↑Cnidoscolus • Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Euphorbiaceae, ↑family Euphorbiaceae, ↑spurge family …

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  • 83genus Xanthium — noun coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed by burrs with hooked bristles • Syn: ↑Xanthium • Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot genus • Member Holonyms: ↑Compositae, ↑family Compositae, ↑Asteraceae, ↑ …

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  • 84oligochaete worm — noun hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body • Syn: ↑oligochaete • Hypernyms: ↑annelid, ↑annelid worm, ↑segmented worm • Hyponyms: ↑earthworm, ↑ …

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  • 85polychaete worm — noun chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles • Syn: ↑polychaete, ↑polychete, ↑polychete worm • Hypernyms: ↑annelid, ↑annelid worm, ↑segmented worm …

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  • 86polychete worm — noun chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles • Syn: ↑polychaete, ↑polychete, ↑polychaete worm • Hypernyms: ↑annelid, ↑annelid worm, ↑segmented worm …

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  • 87squareflipper square flipper — noun medium sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean • Syn: ↑bearded seal, ↑Erignathus barbatus • Hypernyms: ↑earless seal, ↑true seal, ↑hair seal • Member Holonyms: ↑ …

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  • 88black oat — noun : an annual European oat (Avena strigosa) with a lemma having two long apical bristles …

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  • 89bristle-bird — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : any of three Australian birds (genus Dasyornis) that resembles wrens and have two or three pairs of strong recurved bristles at the angles of the mouth …

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  • 90bristle-thighed curlew — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : a curlew (Numenius tahitiensis) with points like bristles on its thigh feathers that breeds in western Alaska and winters chiefly in Polynesia * * * /bris euhl thuyd / an Alaskan curlew, Numenius tahitiensis, that winters in …

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