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Setaceous   Listen
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Setaceous  adj.  
1.
Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail.
2.
Bristelike in form or texture; as, a setaceous feather; a setaceous leaf.





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"Setaceous" Quotes from Famous Books



... and attenuated into a short beak. The same plant was found by Frazer along the Brisbane. The THYSANOTUS ELATIOR was again found here; and a shrubby CRUCIFEROUS plant, quite woody at the base, with very narrow linear setaceous pinnatifid leaves,[***] and linear curved torulose silicules. A new HAKEA with stout needle like leaves, was also found this day in the scrub. We met with no impediment for eighteen miles, when I encamped, although without reaching water ...
— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell


Words linked to "Setaceous" :   thorny, Asparagus setaceous, setose, seta, burred, bristly, burry, barbed, briary, bristled, briery, armed


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