(a.) Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles.

alive with barbellate bristled bristly bursting close compact crammed crawling crowded crowding dense firm full glochidiate hairy hirsute hispid in profusion jam-packed jammed lavish overflowing packed populous prodigal profuse proliferating prolific rife serried setaceous setose setous solid strigal strigate strigose stubbled stubbly studded superabundant swarming teeming thick thick as hail thick with thick-coming thronged thronging