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SETA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: setae   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stiff hair or bristle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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:

Nouns denoting plants

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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