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bristly

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bris=tly

CIDE DICTIONARY

bristlya. 
     Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.  [1913 Webster]
    "The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bristly, adj. (bristlier, bristliest) full of bristles; rough, prickly.

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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