bristly

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• Flying foxes have a long bristly tongue that's great for lapping up juicy fruit, and for licking and grooming themselves and their friends!
• Perhaps it would be a little shore crab that betrayed itself by scuffling down amongst the corallite or sea-weed, perhaps a little fierce-looking bristly fish, which shot under a ledge of the rock all amongst the limpets, acorn barnacles, or the thousands of yellow and brown and striped snaily fellows that crawled about in company with the periwinkles and pelican's feet. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
• You had to tread carefully with all river men, they were a bristly lot. COFFIN ON THE WATER
• But they are also thorny like a bramble, not bristly like a wineberry. Times, Sunday Times
• Yes | No | Report from huntnow wrote 23 hours 38 min ago the nature of this question confuses the hell out of me but the beard on a turkey looks like a beard of sorts. it protrudes out of their feathers on their chest in long, hopefully, dark colored bristly hairlike form. fudd what did these other hunters think a turkey beard was? QUIZ... I've run into some hunters who thought they knew what a turkey beard is, but they didnt.
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• Two doors lay open before him and he passed through, great, bristly shoulders scraping gilt veneer from the posterns. The Pig’s End « A Fly in Amber
• Beyond the barricade was a little meadow, shoulder deep in a curious grass with bristly heads which grew very thickly. The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages
• The seeds of bristly sarsaparilla, currant, and soapberry lie dormant in the soil and germinate only after being burned; ecologists call the process ‘seed banking.’
• Cluster flies are bristly gray insects, about five times bigger than the ordinary housefly, Musca domestica.