setaceous

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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 Stokes, John Lort

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

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

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 Rangachari, K.

The two endemic Rubi have the prickles reduced to the setaceous condition, and the two palms are unarmed.

From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel

Above brown, spotted with sulphur; beneath sulphureous, with black spots; head and chin black; feathers of the breast lengthened, and ending in long setaceous hairs.

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