setose's Usage Examples:

Its six pairs of limbs are not like the bare and simple feet of the Laura, but two-branched and setose as in the ordinary cypris-stage of the cirripede.

In Compositae besides the involucre there are frequently chaffy and setose bracts at the base of each flower, and in Dipsacaceae a membranous tube surrounds each flower.

It bears a group of long setose hairs the bases of which are connected with the nerve fibre.

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

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