Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having setae or bristles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, bristly; having the surface set with bristles: as, a setose leaf or receptacle.
- In zoology and anatomy, bristling or bristly; setaceous; covered with setæ, or stiff hairs; setous. See cut under
Hymenoptera .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.
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- adjective Thickly set with
bristles or bristly hairs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
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Examples
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Legs short, rather slender; fore femora somewhat setose beneath.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The _spikelets_ are ovate, acuminate, binate (sometimes solitary or three) on a common finely filiform stalk, one long and the other short pedicelled, pale or yellowish green, or purple; pedicels are angular, scabrid or scaberulous, slightly swollen at the top and sometimes with setose hairs also.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The body is clothed with long setose cilia which are frequently fully outstretched when the animal is resting, a slight tremor of the large membrane alone indicating vitality.
Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 1906
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Petiole 2-6 mm, puberulent and ± setose; leaf blade papery, oblong to oblong - lanceolate, 5-11 × 1. 5-3.5 cm; base cuneate; margin ciliate; apex obtuse and mucronate; abaxial surface densely gray-white-pubescent, yellow-brown setose along midrib; adaxial surface sparsely to densely puberulent when young.
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Capsule conical-cylindric, 5-ribbed, 25-35 mm, puberulent and sparsely setose.
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A decidious Shrubs, 0. 5-2 m tall; branches densely gray-white-pubescent, also sparsely setose when young.
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It has five pairs of biramous, setose and thoracopods
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It has five pairs of biramous, setose and thoracopods (appendages).
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It has five pairs of biramous, setose and thoracopods (appendages).
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It has five pairs of biramous, setose and thoracopods (appendages).
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