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S: (v) abound, burst, bristle (be in a state of movement or action) "The room abounded with screaming children"; "The garden bristled with toddlers"
S: (v) bristle, uprise, stand up (rise up as in fear) "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!"

S: (v) bristle (have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles) "bristling leaves"
S: (v) bristle (react in an offended or angry manner) "He bristled at her suggestion that he should teach her how to use the program"

S: (adj) barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny (having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.) "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"

W: (n) barbel [Related to: barbellate] (slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish)
W: (n) briar [Related to: briary] (a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries)
W: (n) bristliness [Related to: bristly] (the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines)
W: (n) bristle [Related to: bristly] (a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic)
W: (n) burr [Related to: burry] (seed vessel having hooks or prickles)
W: (n) prickle [Related to: prickly] (a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf)
W: (n) prickliness [Related to: prickly] (the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines)
W: (n) seta [Related to: setaceous] (a stiff hair or bristle)
W: (n) spininess [Related to: spiny] (the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines)
W: (n) thorniness [Related to: thorny] (the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines)
W: (n) thorn [Related to: thorny] (a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf)