Covered, set, or tipped with bristles or stiff prickly hairs; rough and prickly, bristly.

Set with bristles or short stiff hairs; setose.

Rough with stiff hair or bristles; shaggy; bristly: in Botany and Invert. Zool. Clothed with short stiff hairs or bristles; rough with minute spines.

Furnished with or having setæ or bristles.

Anatomy and Zoology. Set or covered with bristles or stiff hairs, bristly. Also, of a bristly nature.

Bearded, bristly.

Having the form of a seta or bristle; bristle-shaped.

= setose, adj.

Having setæ or bristles.

covered with setules.

Slightly hispid.

Producing setæ or bristles.

having the form of a setule.

‘Of or pertaining to setæ; as the setal bands of a brachiopod which may run along the pallial margin and denote the site of the setæ.’

Furnished or covered with setae or bristles, bristly.