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Seta

//ˈsiːtə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A bristle or hair.

    "The setal arrangement in Puncia therefore could represent an evolutionary intermediate step appropriate to a wide-gaped ostracod, in which a domiciliar 'early warning' system is afforded by the frill and extremely long setae."

  2. 2
    a stiff hair or bristle wordnet
  3. 3
    The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort.

    "The latter has the sporophyte seta 4 cells in diam. and has thecal Lejeunea-type androecial branches[…]"

  4. 4
    stalk of a moss capsule wordnet

Etymology

From Latin seta, from saeta. Doublet of soy (“silk”).

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