Definition of seta

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Seta (n.) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.

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Seta :: Seta (n.) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.
Setaceous :: Setaceous (a.) Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail..
Setulose :: Setulose (a.) Having small bristles or setae.
Foxtail :: Foxtail (n.) The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria..
Setiger :: Setiger (n.) An annelid having setae; a chaetopod.
Aphrodite :: Aphrodite (n.) A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setae; the sea mouse..
Sea Mouse :: Sea mouse () A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setae on the sides..
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..
Joint-fir :: "Joint-fir (n.) A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed; -- called also shrubby horsetail. There are about thirty species, of which two or three are found from Texas to California..
Equiseta :: Equiseta (pl. ) of Equisetu.
Setaceous :: Setaceous (a.) Bristelike in form or texture; as, a setaceous feather; a setaceous leaf..
Horsetail :: Horsetail (n.) A Turkish standard, denoting rank..
Polychaeta :: Polychaeta (n. pl.) One of the two principal groups of Chaetopoda. It includes those that have prominent parapodia and fascicles of setae. See Illust. under Parapodia.
Seta :: 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..
Equisetum :: Equisetum (n.) A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails..
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..
Trichophore :: Trichophore (n.) One of the saclike organs from which the setae of annelids arise.
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..
Horsetail :: Horsetail (n.) A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum..
Moha :: Moha (n.) A kind of millet (Setaria Italica); German millet.
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