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SETA
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Irregular inflected form: setae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stiff hair or bristle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("seta" is a kind of...):
hair (a filamentous projection or process on an organism)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seta"):
chaeta (a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm)
Derivation:
setaceous (having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Stalk of a moss capsule
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("seta" is a kind of...):
podetium (an organ or body resembling a stalk; especially the outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens on which the ascocarp is borne)
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