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What does setaceous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word setaceous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. of, relating to, or resembling a bristle or bristles; bristly
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The long-awned species of Festuca have compact stiff panicles and narrow or setaceous leaves.
Antennae incrassated and plumose in basal half, the joints moniliform, apical half setaceous.
The two endemic Rubi have the prickles reduced to the setaceous condition, and the two palms are unarmed.
The antenn are about an inch long, slender, setaceous, and gradually diminishing from the base to the extremities.
Yet insects that have filiform or setaceous antenn appear often to use them for exploring.
Continuing in this way, the stylets work like a push drill that penetrates the host skin with the toothed tip region, and the sclerotised, setaceous inner edge possibly widens the puncture wound.

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