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adj. Bristly; setaceous.

adj. Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.

adj. Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.

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.

adj. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

"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."

armed    setous   

bristle