On dry hills a close tufted grass, with setaceous leaves, and in rich soils creeping and luxuriant with broad leaves.
The most obviously awned species of Festuca have more or less setaceous leaves and contracted inflorescences (see p.
All the other species of Aira have involute and setaceous leaves, and even A.
The long-awned species of Festuca have compact stiff panicles and narrow or setaceous leaves (see p.
With the exception of Festuca Myurus and one or two other rare Fescues with setaceous leaves, Hordeum and Brachypodium are the only other genera with awns much resembling the Bromes.
Grasses with setaceous or bristle-like leaves;--i.
A tough wiry tufted moor-grass, withsetaceous leaves, secund spikelets with a single rudimentary glume, and a stiff simple hairy style.
The fourth type is presented by the short filiform antennae of Termes; the fifth by the setaceousones of Corydalis, Hemerobius, &c.
The larva of the common gnat has two long incurved setaceous antennae, fringed with hairs at some distance from their apex, which consist only of a single joint[243].
With regard to the form of the palpi, those of the Lepidoptera are mostly conical; in other orders they are sometimes setaceous and sometimes filiform.
A hexapod antenniferous larva of an oblong form, having like the former vestiges of a thorax, besides two or more articulated or inarticulated setaceous or corneous appendages to the last segment of the abdomen.
On the belly near the anus these males have four fleshy appendages, the posterior ones setaceous and long, and the anterior pair filiform and shorter.
Bristelike in form or texture; as, a setaceous feather; a setaceous leaf.
Yet insects that have filiform or setaceous antennae appear often to use them for exploring.
The tarsi of these insects are setaceous and nearly as fine as a hair, consisting sometimes of more than forty joints, those toward the extremity being very minute, and scarcely discernible, and terminating in a single claw.
The grasshoppers with setaceous antennae (Acrida) have four tarsal joints.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "setaceous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bristling; bristly; hairy; hirsute; prickly; stubbled; studded; thorny
