BRISTLINESS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines

Synonyms:

bristliness; prickliness; spininess; thorniness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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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