Definition of seta

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Seta (n.) One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid. They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form..

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Chaetiferous :: Chaetiferous (a.) Bearing setae.
Equisetum :: Equisetum (n.) A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails..
Setiform :: Setiform (a.) Having the form or structure of setae.
Equiseta :: Equiseta (pl. ) of Equisetu.
Equisetaceous :: Equisetaceous (a.) Belonging to the Equisetaceae, or Horsetail family..
Foxtail :: Foxtail (n.) The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria..
Seta :: Seta (n.) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.
Trichophore :: Trichophore (n.) One of the saclike organs from which the setae of annelids arise.
Mousetail :: Mousetail (n.) A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Myosurus), in which the prolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and so resembles the tail of a mouse..
Aphrodite :: Aphrodite (n.) A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setae; the sea mouse..
Setiger :: Setiger (n.) An annelid having setae; a chaetopod.
Pteridophyta :: Pteridophyta (n. pl.) A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia..
Sea Mouse :: Sea mouse () A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setae on the sides..
Setula :: Setula (n.) A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta..
Seta :: Seta (n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss..
Setiparous :: Setiparous (a.) Producing setae; -- said of the organs from which the setae of annelids arise.
Gephyrea :: Gephyrea (n. pl.) An order of marine Annelida, in which the body is imperfectly, or not at all, annulated externally, and is mostly without setae..
Aplacophora :: Aplacophora (n. pl.) A division of Amphineura in which the body is naked or covered with slender spines or setae, but is without shelly plates..
Setulose :: Setulose (a.) Having small bristles or setae.
Setaceous :: Setaceous (a.) Bristelike in form or texture; as, a setaceous feather; a setaceous leaf..
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