| Setaceous 1. (a.) Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail. 2. (a.) Bristelike in form or texture; as, a setaceous feather; a setaceous leaf. Thesaurus Entries alive with, barbellate, bristled, bristly, bursting, close, compact, crammed, crawling, crowded, crowding, dense, firm, full, glochidiate, hairy, hirsute, hispid, in profusion, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, overflowing, packed, populous, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, rife, serried, setaceous, setose, setous, solid, strigal, strigate, strigose, stubbled, stubbly, studded, superabundant, swarming, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thronged, thronging |