Bisetose - ous: with two bristle-like or setaceous appendages. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Antennæ setaceous, simple, very slender, full half the length of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
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 curved torulose silicules. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
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 submarginal cells; the femora slightly incrassate, not denticulate; the tarsi 5-jointed. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
The two endemic Rubi have the prickles reduced to the setaceous condition, and the two palms are unarmed. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
It has an erect, terete, glabrous stem, with setaceous leaves and a diffuse panicle, whose branches are somewhat verticilate; glumes unequal; paleæ equal, exterior one pubescent at base, and bearing also an awn. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
Antennæ setaceous, simple. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Antennæ short, stout, setaceous. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
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