Taxonomic Characteristics

adjective having stiff, straight, or rigid hairs or bristles

• The leaves of the plant were covered in tiny strigose hairs.
• I touched the strigose leaves and they felt rough.
• Don't touch that plant, it's all strigose and scratchy.
• His personality was like a strigose surface, rough and prickly to interact with.

adjective describing an organism that lacks a coelom, or body cavity

• The acoelous vertebrae of certain animals lack a centrum.
• Some animals have acoelous vertebrae without a centrum.
• Check out the acoelous backbone on that critter!
• His argument was acoelous, lacking a solid foundation.