bristle-like

A mangrove swamp might seem odd habitat for a cassowary, but records from the 1930s report sightings of cassowaries sitting in shallow mangrove water, letting fish swim into their long, bristle-like feathers.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

"Prof Theagarten Lingham-Soliar at the University of KwaZulu Natal, claims today to have 'refuted' a suggestion that primitive bristle-like structures that adorn the tail of Psittacosaurus are prototype feathers, as claimed by those seeking evidence to back the widely accepted idea of avian origins." ...

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

The penultimate joint, instead of terminating in a simple claw, ends in three bristle-like appendages of dissimilar lengths — the longest equalling that of the entire leg.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

His face was swarthy, as though smoked, his eyes were large, immobile and angry, his thick upper lip was covered with a bristle-like, soldier moustache.

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

The penultimate joint, instead of terminating in a simple claw, ends in three bristle-like appendages of dissimilar lengths — the longest equalling that of the entire leg.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

By the clairvoyant vision it is seen to be streaked or marked by very minute, bristle-like lines, radiating outward from the physical body of the individual, in a manner very like "the quills upon the fretful porcupine," as Shakespeare puts it.

The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms Swami Panchadasi

In the case of excellent physical health, these bristle-like streaks are stiff and brittle-looking, whereas, if the general health of the person be deficient these bristle-like radiations seem to be more or less tangled, twisted, or curly; and, in some cases present a drooping appearance, and in extreme cases present the appearance of soft, limp fur.

The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms Swami Panchadasi

Sori on the edge of a pinnule terminating a vein; sporangia at the base of a long, bristle-like receptacle surrounded by a cup-shaped indusium.

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

Caries was a pustular disease, in which bristle-like hairs formed a prominent feature.

Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

There are two kinds of creeping green very common in all moist wooded lands at the North -- the kind with leaves rising in whorls, and that with a stem covered with bristle-like spikes.

Harper's Young People, December 23, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various