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bristly
/'brisli/
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  1. adjective
    having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
    "a horse with a short bristly mane" "bristly shrubs"

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    barbed barbellate briary briery bristled burred burry prickly setaceous setose spiny thorny armed
  2. adjective
    very irritable
    "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"

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    prickly splenetic waspish ill-natured
Definition that contains bristly
  • bristly sarsparilla bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark
  • tachina fly bristly fly whose larvae live parasitically in caterpillars and other insects; important in control of noxious insects
  • dwarf elder bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark
  • aralia hispida bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark
  • bristly sarsaparilla bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark
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