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BRISTLINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bristliness mean?
• BRISTLINESS (noun)
The noun BRISTLINESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
Familiarity information: BRISTLINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
bristliness; prickliness; spininess; thorniness
Hypernyms ("bristliness" is a kind of...):
raggedness; roughness (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)
Derivation:
bristly (having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.)
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