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bristle | American Dictionary

bristle
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈbrɪs·əl/
a short, stiff hair:
[ Cusually pl ]The old brush had lost most of its bristles.
bristle
verb[ I ]
us/ˈbrɪs·əl/
(of hairs) to stand up because of fear or anger, or (of people) to show anger:
The cat’s fur bristled.
She bristles at injustice.

bristly

adjectiveus/ˈbrɪs·li/
a bristly chin

Examples of bristle

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Scutellum with similar colouring to that of the thorax, the mid lobe with six bristles and the lateral lobes with four.
Despite the deceptive brevity of the index, the text bristles with names, dates, and details.
Sternopleural bristles were counted, on females only, on both sides of the thorax.
The wild-type number of scutellar bristles is four.
The ix5 mutant also affects the morphology of the mechanosensory bristles of the terminal abdominal segment of both male and female.
Rather than delighting in an arrested infancy, he was bristling with the violence of undirected and unloved adolescence.
When a tangential force is applied, the bristles will deflect.
I was struck by the archaeologist's attention to concrete detail: precise measurement and characterization ('eleven rows of bristles'; p. 122).
The mid and hind femora have 7 dorsal notches, the first, second, fourth, and seventh (apical) notches bearing each a pair of bristles.
The bristles are rather short and those placed on the head and thorax are approximately thicker than is usual in the allied fleas.
The bristles at the sides of the posterior tergites are short and hardly project beyond the edge of the abdomen.
He also provides a detailed description of the item itself: how long is it, how many bristles does it have, even giving dimensions in millimetres.
Indeed, it was all too quickly crowded off the agenda of official responses, by a governing culture bristling with revenge and self-justification.
The most striking structural feature is the short head with its strongly developed bristles.
The strong bristles on the distal margins of his cerci pressed against the membranous ventral surface of her abdomen (fig. 11).
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