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setigerous
Also se·tif·er·ous
[si-tij-er-uhs]
adjective
having setae or bristles.
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Setigerous: bearing setae or bristles; e.g. punctures.
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To-day as I was opening a specimen of Lepas anatifera in order to compare the animal with the description in Darwin's 'Monograph on the Subclass Cirripedia,' I found in the shell of this Cirripede, a blood-red Annelide, with a short, flat body, about half an inch long and two lines in breadth, with twenty-five body-segments, and without projecting setigerous tubercles or jointed cirri.
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