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adj. - Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns, etc.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Bisetose - ous: with two bristle-like or setaceous appendages.
  • Antennæ setaceous, simple, very slender, full half the length of the body.
  • THYSANOTUS ELATIOR was again found here; and a shrubby CRUCIFEROUS plant, quite woody at the base, with very narrow linear setaceous pinnatifid leaves,173 and linear...
  • Head globose; antennæ longer than the body, and very slender and setaceous; the prothorax forming a slender neck; the anterior wings with one marginal and three...
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