Setaceous

Many moths are christened only in Latin, but the lovely vernacular names, Joe said, date from the seventeenth century: one species that flocked to our trap that night was the relatively common setaceous hebrew character, so named to denote the hieroglyphic on its forewing. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

THYSANOTUS ELATIOR was again found here; and a shrubby CRUCIFEROUS plant, quite woody at the base, with very narrow linear setaceous pinnatifid leaves,173 and linear curved torulose silicules. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The _leaf-blade_ is linear-lanceolate, rigid, erect, acuminate with a setaceous tip, nearly smooth, varying in length from 6 to 20 inches and in breadth from 1/6 to 2/3 inch. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Ravens, quails, _minas_, sparrows, and a beautiful swallow were seen about the Soorkhab river; the latter, with metallic blue on the back of the head, crown of head tawny, tail short, two exterior feathers elongated into beautiful almost setaceous bodies, exceeding the length of the bird. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)

Head globose; antennæ longer than the body, and very slender and setaceous; the prothorax forming a slender neck; the anterior wings with one marginal and three submarginal cells; the femora slightly incrassate, not denticulate; the tarsi 5-jointed. ❋ Various (N/A)

Antennæ setaceous, simple, very slender, full half the length of the body. ❋ Various (N/A)

Bisetose - ous: with two bristle-like or setaceous appendages. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

The dill is an annual plant, "with finely striated stems, usually one foot to one foot and a half in height, pinnate leaves with setaceous linear segments, and yellow flowers" (Enc. Bib.). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The two endemic Rubi have the prickles reduced to the setaceous condition, and the two palms are unarmed. ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)

It has an erect, terete, glabrous stem, with setaceous leaves and a diffuse panicle, whose branches are somewhat verticilate; glumes unequal; paleæ equal, exterior one pubescent at base, and bearing also an awn. ❋ Unknown (1858)

THYSANOTUS ELATIOR was again found here; and a shrubby CRUCIFEROUS plant, quite woody at the base, with very narrow linear setaceous pinnatifid leaves, [***] and linear curved torulose silicules. ❋ Thomas Mitchell (1823)

Haggis is trying to remember, "Now did I burry the bodies and burn the Cub Scout uniforms … from dictionary. com: burry adjectivehaving or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.;" a horse with a short bristly mane ";" bristly shrubs ";" burred fruits ";" setaceous whiskers "hmph. fruits and setaceous whiskers, indeed. ❋ Unknown (2008)