ADJECTIVE
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having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
setaceous whiskers
burred fruits
a horse with a short bristly mane
bristly shrubs
How To Use setaceous In A Sentence
- THYSANOTUS ELATIOR was again found here; and a shrubby CRUCIFEROUS plant, quite woody at the base, with very narrow linear setaceous pinnatifid leaves,173 and linear curved torulose silicules. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
- Setaceous’ is simply one of those specialist words used in the trade to mean bristly’, just as lunate’ means crescent-shaped and ocellate’ means eye-like. Wildwood
- THYSANOTUS ELATIOR was again found here; and a shrubby CRUCIFEROUS plant, quite woody at the base, with very narrow linear setaceous pinnatifid leaves, [***] and linear curved torulose silicules. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
- THYSANOTUS ELATIOR was again found here; and a shrubby CRUCIFEROUS plant, quite woody at the base, with very narrow linear setaceous pinnatifid leaves,173 and linear curved torulose silicules. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
- Antennae incrassated and plumose in basal half, the joints moniliform, apical half setaceous.
- setaceous whiskers
- Many moths are christened only in Latin, but the lovely vernacular names, Joe said, date from the seventeenth century: one species that flocked to our trap that night was the relatively common setaceous hebrew character, so named to denote the hieroglyphic on its forewing. Wildwood
