Usually means: Thin, bristle-like appendage or structure.
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  1. arista: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. arista: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. arista: Collins English Dictionary
  4. arista: Vocabulary.com
  5. Arista, arista: Wordnik
  6. Arista, Arista: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  7. Arista, arista: Wiktionary
  8. arista: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. arista: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. arista: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Arista, arista: Dictionary.com
  12. Arista (honor society), Arista (insect anatomy): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. arista: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. arista: Rhymezone
  15. Arista, arista: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. arista: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. arista: Free Dictionary
  18. arista: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. arista: Dictionary/thesaurus
  20. Arista: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  21. Arista: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  22. arista: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Italian Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. arista: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. arista: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. arista: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See aristae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Arista)

noun:  (biology) One of the fibrils found on grains or fishes.
noun:  (entomology) A bristle on the third segment of a fly's antenna.
noun:  A surname.

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