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seta

/ˈsiːtə/

seta noun: a bristle or hair.

seta: a bristle or hair
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Noun

seta (plural setas or setae or setæ)

  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.1991, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Volumes 31-32, page 83
  2. 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[…]1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 6

seta meaning in Tamil

seta in Tamil

காம்பு, சீட்டா, நுண்முள்

Examples of seta in a sentence

  • Philopterus spp.; Figs 34–35), but are clearly identifiable in species with fewer setae (Fig. 37).
  • Face approximately 0.20 mm long and subequally wide in middle (strongly divergent ventrally), without setae.
  • Telson bilobulated, distal margin with 7 plumodenticulate setae in each lobe.

All 23 example sentences with seta

Forms of seta

pluralsetas
pluralsetae
pluralsetæ

Origin of seta

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

Words formed from seta

Questions about seta

What does seta mean?
Seta means a bristle or hair.
What is seta in Tamil?
Seta in Tamil is காம்பு, சீட்டா, நுண்முள். See Seta meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is seta?
Seta is a noun.
How do you pronounce seta?
Seta is pronounced /ˈsiːtə/.
What is the plural of seta?
The plural of seta is setas.

Words near seta in the dictionary

  1. set-top box
  2. set-top boxes
  3. set-tos
  4. set-up
  5. set-ups
  6. seta
  7. setaceo-serrate
  8. setaceous
  9. setaceous Hebrew character
  10. setaceous Hebrew characters
  11. setaceously

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seta (page history and authors); seta (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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