Bristles synonyms

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horripilation
The bristling of the body hair, as from fear or cold; goose bumps.
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aristate
(Botany) Having a pointed, beard-like process, like those of the glumes of wheat; awned.
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barbellate
(Botany) Having a covering of fine barbs, quills, spines or thorns
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bristly
Covered with bristles.
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chaetophorous
Having bristles.
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hispid
(Obsolete) Covered in short, stiff hairs; bristly.
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setaceous
Having or consisting of bristles; bristly:
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setarious
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setiferous
(Biol.) Having setae (see seta)
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setose
Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.
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seta
A bristle or hair
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bursts
Fairfax
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abounds
(Intransitive) To be copiously supplied;
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toasts
To heat and brown (bread, for example) by placing in a toaster or an oven or close to a fire.
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struts
Strut is defined as to walk in a stiff, swaggering way.
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ruffles
To become irregular or rough:
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fumes
To expose something (especially wood) to ammonia fumes in order to produce dark tints.
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brushes
To untangle or arrange with a brush.
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angers
To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
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bridles
To lift the head and draw in the chin in anger or resentment.
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swarms
To be filled or crowded; teem
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pullulates
To be or increase in great numbers:
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flows
(Intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
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overflows
To flow over the brim or edge of
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teems
Teem is defined as to be full of something and ready to burst or to pour.
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crawls
(Intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
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steams
To expose to steam, as in cooking.
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seethes
To be violently excited or agitated:
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rages
To spread or prevail forcefully:
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foams
A colloid in which particles of a gas are dispersed throughout a liquid.
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burns
To harden or impart a finish to by subjecting to intense heat; fire:
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setae
A bristle or hair
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quills
One of the sharp hollow spines of a porcupine or hedgehog.
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fibers
(Mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
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points (related)
(Linguistics) A vowel point.
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thorns (related)
A very short, hard, leafless branch or stem with a sharp point
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hairs (related)
Fabric made from the hair of certain animals:
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uprises
To rise in revolt
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Find another word for bristles. In this page you can discover 40 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for bristles, like: horripilation, aristate, barbellate, bristly, chaetophorous, hispid, setaceous, setarious, setiferous, setose and spiny.
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Bristles Sentence Examples

  • Use a brush with soft, natural bristles and gently brush it.

  • The fruits, too, are freely furnished with bristles.

  • The outer opening of the ear is, with rare exceptions, concealed by feathers, which are often rather stiff, or modified into bristles.

  • After a series of moults it passes into the second larval stage, somewhat like the parent but differing in having each integumental ring armed with a fringe of backwardly directed short bristles.

  • The body is enclosed in a stout cuticle, prolonged in places into spines and bristles.

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