Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped like a seta or bristle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form of a seta; shaped like or resembling a bristle; setaceous.
- Antennæ having a short and thick basal joint, the rest of the organ being reduced to a bristle-like appendage, as in the dragon-flies.
- Same as
setaceous antennæ (which see, undersetaceous ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form or structure of setæ.
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- adjective Having the shape or structure of
setae .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Antennæ short; third joint round; arista apical, long, slender, setiform.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Antennæ very short; third joint round; arista apical, long, slender, setiform.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Antennæ short; third joint round; arista apical, slender, setiform.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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It follows that when the whole instrument is exserted, we perceive a long membranous flexible tube hanging down from the labium, and along the walls of this tube the setiform mandibles and maxillæ in the shape of long narrow bands of chitine.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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The other, a smaller Gelasimus, not described in Milne-Edwards '' Natural History of Crustacea, 'which prefers drier places and is not afraid to run about on the burning sand under the vertical rays of the noonday sun in December, but can also endure being in water at least for several weeks, resembles Ocypoda in having these brushes composed of non-setiform, delicate hairs, indeed even more delicate and more regularly constructed than in Ocypoda.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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Megamerus "has an affinity to Sagra, but differs from that genus in having setiform antennae, porrect mandibles, and securiform palpi, its habit is also totally different, and more like that of some of those insects which belong to the heterogeneous magazine called Prionus; it is undoubtedly the most singular and novel form in Captain King's collection."
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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This fluid, which is scarcely inferior to honey in sweetness, issues in limpid drops from the abdomen of these insects, not only by the ordinary passage, but also by two setiform tubes placed, one on each side, just above it.
Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual 1852
reesetee commented on the word setiform
Bristle-shaped; setaceous.
April 16, 2008