Seta meaning

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A stiff hair, bristle, or bristlelike process or part on an organism, especially an invertebrate.
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The stalk of a moss or liverwort capsule.
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A bristle or bristlelike part or organ.
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A stiff hair, bristle, or bristlelike process or part on an organism, especially an invertebrate.
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A stiff hair, bristle, or bristlelike process or part on an organism. Setae on the bodies of spiders are used as sensory organs, while setae on the bodies of many polychaete worms, such as earthworms, are used for locomotion. Microscopic setae on the feet of geckos allow adhesion to vertical surfaces.
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(botany) The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort.
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Origin of seta

  • Latin saeta, sēta bristle
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Latin seta, from saeta.
    From Wiktionary

Seta Sentence Examples

  • b, Extremity of penial seta of Acanthodrilus (after Horst).

  • c, Seta of Urochaeta (Perier).

  • In the vibraculum the part representing the zooecium is relatively smaller, and the mandible has become the "seta," an elongated chitinous lash which projects far beyond the zooecial portion of the structure.

  • archegonium, those surrounding the archegonia and base of the seta.

  • Frequently, also, a considerable differentiation of vegetative tissue occurs in the wall of the spore-capsule itself, and in some of the higher forms a special assimilating and transpiring organ situated just below the capsule at the top of the seta, with a richly lacunar chlorophyllous parenchyma and stomata like those of the wall of the capsule in the Anthocerotean liverworts.

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