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barbellate

adjective as in bristly

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Pappus plumose or only barbellate.

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Characters as in Kuhnia; involucral scales more numerous, and the bristles of the pappus merely scabrous or at the most barbellate or subplumose; leaves often all opposite.

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Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

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Barbellate, said of the bristles of the pappus of some Composit� when beset with short, stiff hairs, longer than when denticulate, but shorter than when plumose.

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