Seta
/ˈsiːtə/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a stiff hair or bristle wordnet
- 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 stalk of a moss capsule wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Latin seta, from saeta. Doublet of soy (“silk”).