setaceous

setaceous is a 9-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail.
2. adjective. Bristelike in form or texture; as, a setaceous feather; a setaceous leaf.
3. adjective. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

   "a horse with a short bristly mane"

   "bristly shrubs"

   Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, spiny, thorny

Synonyms

barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, spiny, thorny

Common word forms

setaceously

Words from these letters

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