1. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
   "setaceous whiskers"
   - barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, spiny, thorny

See also: armed, seta

• combat boot
• combat casualty
• combat ceiling
• combat fatigue
• combat injury
• combat intelligence
• combat mission
• combat neurosis
• combat pay
• combat pilot
• combat ship
• combat zone
• combat-ready
• combatant
• combative
• combatively
• combativeness
• combe
• combed
• comber
• combinable
• combination
• combination in restraint of trade
• combination lock
• combination plane