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bristlegrass |
bristlelike |
bristletail |
bristliness |
bristling |
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bristly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective bristly has 2 senses
- bristly(s = adj.all) prickly, splenetic, waspish - very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
- bristly(s = adj.all) barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny - having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" Derived forms noun bristle1, noun bristliness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
bristly, a.
Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. [1913 Webster]
"The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly."
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THESAURUS
bristly
acanaceous, aculeolate, barbellate, brambly, briery, bristled, bristling, bushy, cirrose, fleecy, flocculent, furry, fuzzy, glochidiate, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, muricate, pilose, pricking, prickly, pricky, pubescent, setaceous, setose, setous, shagged, shaggy, stinging, strigal, strigate, strigose, stubbled, stubbly, studded, thistly, thorny, unshorn, woolly
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