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▪ I. setaceous, a.|sɪˈteɪʃəs|
Also 9 erron. setateous.
[f. mod.L. sētāce-us, f. L. sēta bristle: see -aceous.]
1. Having the form or character of a bristle. Chiefly in scientific use (Anat., Zool., Bot.), of the nature of a seta or setæ.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 273 These setaceous prickles. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. viii. vi. 427 The Parent-Insect with its stiff setaceous Tail, terebrates the Rib of the Leaf. 1769Pennant Brit. Zool. III. 168 The Gattorugine... The teeth slender, almost setaceous. 1769Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 391 The setaceous hairy substance growing on the outside of the pod. 1829Loudon Encycl. Plants 19 Justicia nigricans... Bractes setaceous. 1835T. Bell in Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 474/1 The cats and..the seals, in which animals the long elastic setaceous whiskers are so useful as feelers. 1882–4Cooke Brit. Fresh-w. Algæ I. 120 Thallus very thick, setaceous.
2. Furnished or covered with setæ or bristles, bristly.
setaceous Hebrew-character: a book-name for the moth Noctua C-nigrum (1803 Haworth Lepidoptera Brit. 226. 1869 Newman Brit. Moths 346).
b. jocularly. Bristly, unshaven.
1787Minor ii. i. 66 My father's broad, setaceous visage alternately displayed specimens of all the various colours.
Hence seˈtaceously adv.
1821W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. I. 14 The serratures or little teeth being sometimes only setaceously armed.
▪ II. setaceous
obs. (erron.) f. cetaceous. |