Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In entomology: Having a dense brush of stiff hairs, as the legs of bees.
  • Densely covered with stiff hairs: as, a scopate surface.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Having the surface closely covered with hairs, like a brush.

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  • adjective zoology Having the surface closely covered with hairs, like a brush.

Etymologies

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Latin scopa ("a broom").

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  • scopate you can't --brush-- this off

    January 12, 2007