Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A brush for cleaning bottles.
  • noun The field-horsetail, Equisetum arvense.
  • noun The mare's-tail, Hippuris vulgaris.
  • noun In Australia, the Callistemon lanceolatus. See Callistemon.

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Examples

  • With his wild shock of hair, bottle-brush mustache, and spectacles, Karl looked aloof and unapproachable.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • I LIKE the bottle-brush drawings…the experimentation with color is cool.

    Happy New Year! And Illustration Friday: Renewal 2010

  • Of course, it isn't up to me, so I dragged the white-trash bottle-brush tree down from the attic yesterday and assembled it.

    Ho, Ho, HO ... ! Steve Perry 2009

  • Of course, it isn't up to me, so I dragged the white-trash bottle-brush tree down from the attic yesterday and assembled it.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Steve Perry 2009

  • Suddenly his blue eyes snapped open, and he leapt up and started hissing and spitting at the blank wall opposite, his creamy Siamese fur bottle-brush stiff.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • Suddenly his blue eyes snapped open, and he leapt up and started hissing and spitting at the blank wall opposite, his creamy Siamese fur bottle-brush stiff.

    Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

  • He had steel gray hair and a matching bottle-brush mustache.

    The Closers Connelly, Michael, 1956- 2005

  • With these, and with a shorter grass, whose bottle-brush heads of pearly grey reached only to the ankle, the hill-sides were furred white and bowed themselves lowly towards us with each puff of the casual wind.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • These flowers, which are shaped like a bottle-brush, are very full of honey.

    Journal of a tour of discovery across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in the year 1813 2002

  • His eyes and the end of his restless nose were pink; he could scratch himself anywhere he pleased with any leg, front or back, that he chose to use; he could fluff up his tail till it looked like a bottle-brush, and his war-cry as he scuttled through the long grass was: Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

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