bristling (?.)

• 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