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BRISTLINESS

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

• BRISTLINESS (noun)

Sense 1

bristliness ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

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)

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