Chaetome

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The bristly hairlike appendages growing from the limbs of various mite species, taken as a single bodily organ.

    "In the chaetome (setation) of Phthiracaroidea legs the number of solenidia is given in parenthesis and follows the number of simple setae […]"

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"In the chaetome (setation) of Phthiracaroidea legs the number of solenidia is given in parenthesis and follows the number of simple setae […]"

Etymology

From chaeta + -ome.

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