This week's theme: words made using combining forms.

setiform (SEE-tuh-form) adjective

   Bristle-shaped or having bristles.

[From Latin seti- (bristle) + -form.]

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "The compound was full of figures, the scampering setiform bodies of
   chimpanzees and the taller, more exiguous* forms of their closest
   living relatives."
   Will Self; Great Apes; Grove Press; 1998.
   * small; slender.

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