Setose [adjective]

Definition of Setose:

with stiff hairs

Synonyms of Setose:

● Echinate

● Spiny

● Aristate

● Barbellate

● Chaetophorous

● Hispid

● Setaceous

● Setal

● Setarious

● Setiferous


Opposite/Antonyms of Setose:

● Smooth

● Clean-shaven


Sentence/Example of Setose:

Achenes obovoid or oblong, attached obliquely at or near the base; pappus setose or partly chaffy or none.

Legs short, rather slender; fore femora somewhat setose beneath.

The leaves in most species are markedly acuminate and their margins are sharp-serrate or setose-serrate.

Pluri-setose: bearing several seta; as the head in some Carabids.

It is the only species furnished with elongated setose spines.

The larv described in Farres case, not being setose, must be referred to one or other of the Muscid proper.