noun
Meaning 1
A bristle or hair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
seta
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/ˈsiːtə/
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homophone: seater
noun
Meaning 2
The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 3
a stiff hair or bristle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hair
Narrower terms: chaeta
noun
Meaning 4
stalk of a moss capsule
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: podetium
History
Etymology
From Latin seta, from saeta. Doublet of soy (“silk”).
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: четина (četina) — bristle or hair
- Finnish: harjas — bristle or hair
- Finnish: karva — bristle or hair
- Finnish: suka — bristle or hair
- Portuguese: cerda — bristle or hair
- Swedish: seta — bristle or hair
- Catalan: seta — stalk of a moss sporangium
- Finnish: sukanen — stalk of a moss sporangium
- Romanian: setă — stalk of a moss sporangium