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a stiff hair or bristle

a stiff hair or bristle

Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss.

One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.

Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss.

One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.

Any bristle-like structure ; the chaeta of Chaetopods.

A bristle (e. g., a stiff hair or a straight, slender prickle).

A bristlelike hair or hairlike organ. [Lat.]