| 释义 |
setose, a.|ˈsiːtəʊs|
[ad. L. sētōs-us, sætōs-us bristly, f. sēta, sæta bristle: see -ose.]
1. Anat. and Zool. Set or covered with bristles or stiff hairs, bristly. Also, of a bristly nature.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Isagoge b 1 b, The taile..setose in those that are longish, as horses. 1819Macleay Horæ Entomol. I. 35 Porrect mandibles, and setose maxillæ. 1881–2W. Saville-Kent Man. Infusoria II. 779 Three or four distinctly differentiated setose cilia.
2. Bot. Having setæ or bristles.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xvii. (1765) 43 Setose, bristly. 1832Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 114 If those hairs..are very unusually stiff, it [sc. the pappus] is setose. 1881Babington Brit. Bot. (ed. 8) Gloss., Setose, having bristles or setæ usually ending in glands.
Hence seˈtosity.
1731Bailey vol. II, Setosity, fulness of bristles. |