Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Giving rise to setæ producing bristles: applied to certain organs of annelids.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Producing setæ; -- said of the organs from which the setæ of annelids arise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Producing
setae .
Etymologies
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seta + Latin papere to produce.
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