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setaceous

[si-tey-shuhs] / sɪˈteɪ ʃəs /


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The teeth are disposed on the jaws in rather broad villiform bands, the individual teeth being setaceous and erect.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by John Lort Stokes

The nostrils round and bare; the base of the bill has a few weak setaceous hairs.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

Glabrous throughout, erect, branching; leaflets 3–9, linear to oblong; spikes globose, the subulate setaceous bracts much shorter than the acutely toothed calyx, petals white.—Kan. to Tex.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Spinous-radiate: beset with spines in a circle, either concatenate, united at their bases, or setaceous, like bristles.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith

Bisetose -ous: with two bristle-like or setaceous appendages.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith




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