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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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • 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.

Etymologies

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Latin setosus, saetosus, from seta ("bristle"), saeta ("bristle").

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