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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.
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The two endemic Rubi have the prickles reduced to the setaceous condition, and the two palms are unarmed.
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Nostrils basal, oval, open, covered externally with incumbent setaceous feathers.
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The nostrils round and bare; the base of the bill has a few weak setaceous hairs.
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Shell ovate-conical, brownish olive; whorls armed with porrect tubular spines, enclosing setaceous bristles.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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