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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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Hair 76% connected

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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Podetium 76% connected

A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Setose 74% connected

Alt. of Setous

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Setose 74% connected

Alt. of Setous

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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