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Seta
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.
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The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of…
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A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.
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Alt. of Setous
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