setaceous

American  

[si-tay-shuhs] / sɪˈteɪ ʃəs /

adjective

1. bristlelike; bristle-shaped.

2. having bristles.

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Other Word Forms

• setaceously
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of setaceous

From the New Latin word sētāceus, dating back to 1655–65. See seta, -aceous

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

setaceous

Bisetose -ous: with two bristle-like or setaceous appendages.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith

Perigynium less inflated, more conspicuously nerved or even costate, and with more or less setaceous or awned teeth; scale usually awned; spikes mostly nodding or spreading, comose in appearance, greenish, greenish-yellow, or ochroleucous.—Sp.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

The leaf-blade is linear-lanceolate, rigid, erect, acuminate with a setaceous tip, nearly smooth, varying in length from 6 to 20 inches and in breadth from 1/6 to 2/3 inch.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

Spinous-radiate: beset with spines in a circle, either concatenate, united at their bases, or setaceous, like bristles.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith

The teeth are disposed on the jaws in rather broad villiform bands, the individual teeth being setaceous and erect.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by John Lort Stokes

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