She bristled at the suggestion that she had in any way neglected the child.
[ C usually pl ] The old brush had lost most of its bristles.
4 (of hairs) to stand up because of fear or anger, or (of people) to show anger: --
The wild-type number of scutellar bristles is four.
Sternopleural bristles were counted, on females only, on both sides of the thorax.
Despite the deceptive brevity of the index, the text bristles with names, dates, and details.
Scutellum with similar colouring to that of the thorax, the mid lobe with six bristles and the lateral lobes with four.
Given these observations we might expect that this would also be true for bristles.
The bristles of the second segment of the antenna are all short.
The bristles were rough, providing ample sites for trapping organisms.
All the bristles of the tibiae are pointed and not truncate.
