setaceous

American  

[si-tey-shuhs] / sɪˈteɪ ʃəs /

adjective

1. bristlelike; bristle-shaped.

2. having bristles.

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Other Word Forms

• setaceously
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of setaceous

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

Example Sentences

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setaceous

Above brown, spotted with sulphur; beneath sulphureous, with black spots; head and chin black; feathers of the breast lengthened, and ending in long setaceous hairs.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William

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 Stokes, John Lort

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 Gray, Asa

The nostrils round and bare; the base of the bill has a few weak setaceous hairs.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William

Nostrils basal, simple, round, situated near the margin, the base with a few short incumbent setaceous feathers.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William