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Definition of Setae

Setae
Seta Se"ta, n.; pl. Set[ae]. [L. seta, saeta, a bristle.] 1. (Biol.) 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. 2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid. They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form. (b) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.

Meaning of Setae from wikipedia

- Look up seta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In biology, setae (/ˈsiːtiː/; sg. seta /ˈsiːtə/; from Latin saeta 'bristle') are any of a number of different...
- Synthetic setae emulate the setae found on the toes of a gecko and scientific research in this area is driven towards the development of dry adhesives...
- backing material of flexible polymer tape. These arrays are called synthetic setae and mimic the nanostructures found on the toes of a gecko; this is an example...
- Susan Setae is a women's rights advocate from Papua New Guinea (PNG). She is the president of the PNG Counselling ****ociation and former president of...
- lamellae / setae / spatulae structures and the surface. These van der Waals interactions involve no fluids; in theory, a boot made of synthetic setae would...
- Setae, Setai (Ancient Gr****: Σέται), Settae, Settai (Σέτται), Saettae, Saittai, or Saittae (Σαίτται), was a town of ancient Lydia, located at Sidas Kaleh...
- of long, dense hairs (setae). In subfamily Megatominae and the genus Trinodes, some of these setae are hastisetae: barbed setae ending in spear-like heads...
- white stripes of setae on its cephalothorax, black setae on its chelicerae, and scattered dots and patterns of black and white setae on its abdomen. This...
- leaf-like) setae adorning their backs are evocative of a pea****'s plumage. They also have long hair-like setae projecting from rear (caudal setae) that have...
- surface area effects. On its feet, the gecko has many microscopic hairs, or setae (singular seta), arranged into lamellae that increase the Van der Waals...