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setaceous
adjective as in bristly
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Calyx deeply 5-cleft or parted; its lobes elongated setaceous-acuminate or aristiform.
The two endemic Rubi have the prickles reduced to the setaceous condition, and the two palms are unarmed.
Nostrils basal, oval, open, covered externally with incumbent setaceous feathers.
The nostrils round and bare; the base of the bill has a few weak setaceous hairs.
Shell ovate-conical, brownish olive; whorls armed with porrect tubular spines, enclosing setaceous bristles.
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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to setaceous, such as: aristate, barbellate, chaetophorous, echinate, hispid, and setal.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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