Definition of Setules

1. setule [n] - See also: setule

Lexicographical Neighbors of Setules

settles someone's hash
settles up
settling
settling down
settling someone's hash
settling up
settlings
settlor
settlors
setts
setuale
setuales
setula
setulae
setule
setules (current term)
setulose
setulous
setup
setup fee
setups
setwall
setwalls
seuen
seveare
seven
seven-day fever
seven-league boots
seven-membered
seven-second delay

Literary usage of Setules

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the by Charles Spence Bate (1862)
"Caudal stylets with numerous setules, outer branch of first pair naked. " Length eight lines." Hab. Puget's Sound (Dana). 6. ..."

2. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"The base of the glandular capitate hairs or setules is dilated ... hairs or setules, the root-1. oblong-lanceolate much attenuated downwards, the st. ..."

3. A Review of Copepoda Associated with Sea Anemones and Anemone-Like Forms by Arthur Grover Humes (1982)
"18b), with unilaterally swollen base having long slender setules collectively with brushlike appearance. Small third segment unarmed. ..."

4. The Journal of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1906)
"... as wide as the posterior margin is long, palm slightly oblique and sinuous, and densely fringed with short spines and setules. Carpus very short. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (1902)
"... in the hind margin which is concave, it is irregularly serrate, and besides a fringe of setules bears a rather stout spine at the distal extremity. ..."

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