Se·tose Se·tous a.  Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.
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  setose
       adj : having 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" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery,
              bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous,
              spiny, thorny]