adj. Having the surface closely covered with hairs, like a brush.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Having the surface closely covered with hairs, like a brush.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
In entomology: Having a dense brush of stiff hairs, as the legs of bees.
Densely covered with stiff hairs: as, a scopate surface.
Word Usage
"Anastomus, the Open-billed stork, has scopate tomial edges (meaning that it possesses tiny brush-like structures along the margins of its bill) and upper and lower jaws that bow away from each other, meaning that their edges never meet."