setaceous's Usage Examples:

The leaves are frequently irregular in outline, the lobes rather short and blunt, widening towards the end, but with setaceous points; the acorns are nearly globular.

An Equisetaceous plant, which Brongniart named Phyllotheca in 1828, is another member of the same flora; this type bears a close resemblance to Equisetum in the long internodes and the whorled leaves encircling the nodes, but differs in the looser leaf-sheaths and in the long spreading filiform leaf-segments, as also in the structure of the cones.

4), some large Equisetaceous stems apparently identical, except in size, with modern Horsetails.

This singular arrangement has suggested doubts as to the correctness of the current interpretation of the Equisetaceous sporangiophore as a modified leaf Sm ' 'CI B A (After Renault.

Synonyms:

thorny, burred, briary, bristly, briery, spiny, armed, barbed, setose, bristled, prickly, barbellate, burry,

Antonyms:

unarmed, easy, good-natured, spineless, armless,