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setaceous
| setaria
| setaria glauca
| setaria italica
| setaria italica rubrofructa
| setaria italica stramineofructa
setaceous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective setaceous has 1 sense
- setaceous(s = adj.all) barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, spiny, thorny - having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" Derived form noun seta2
CIDE DICTIONARY
setaceous, a. [L. seta a bristle: cf. F. sétacé.].
- Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail. [1913 Webster]
- Bristelike in form or texture; as, a setaceous feather; a setaceous leaf. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
setaceous
Roughness
N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.
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