setaceous
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Grain oblong, adnate.—Low annuals, with short setaceous leaves.
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
Leaves all submersed and similar, mostly membranaceous and sessile, linear or setaceous.
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
The leaf-blade is linear-lanceolate, rigid, erect, acuminate with a setaceous tip, nearly smooth, varying in length from 6 to 20 inches and in breadth from 1/6 to 2/3 inch.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Nostrils basal, oval, open, covered externally with incumbent setaceous feathers.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson
Antennæ setaceous, simple, very slender, full half the length of the body.
From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various
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