Setose Definition

sētōs
adjective

Setaceous.

Webster's New World
Having setae or bristles.
American Heritage Medicine
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Origin of Setose

  • Latin setosus, saetosus, from seta (“bristle"), saeta (“bristle").

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Setose Sentence Examples

  • It bears a group of long setose hairs the bases of which are connected with the nerve fibre.

  • In Compositae besides the involucre there are frequently chaffy and setose bracts at the base of each flower, and in Dipsacaceae a membranous tube surrounds each flower.

  • Its six pairs of limbs are not like the bare and simple feet of the Laura, but two-branched and setose as in the ordinary cypris-stage of the cirripede.

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