setaceous

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se·ta·ceous (s

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adj.

1. Having or consisting of bristles; bristly: a setaceous moth.

2. Resembling bristles or a bristle: setaceous whiskers.

[set(a) + -aceous.]

se·taceous·ly adv.

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Adj.

setaceous - having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"

barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, setose, spiny, thorny, prickly, bristly, barbed

armed - (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns

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