arista
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (biology) One of the fibrils found on grains or fishes.Examples: "A very distinct species. Habit of Brachystephium scapigerum D. C.: but that ought to have no aristae to the achenium: here the awns are very stout in proportion to the size of the capitulum."
2. (entomology) A bristle on the third segment of a fly's antenna.Examples: "The eyes of the male are separated by a distance equal to one-fourth of the diameter of the head, in the female by one-third. The frontal stripe is black, the cheeks and margins of the orbits silvery-white. The antennæ are black, the arista feathered on the upper side only."
Definition source: Wiktionary