Definitions for Seta

Seta se·ta

Spelling: [see-tuh]
IPA: /ˈsi tə/

Seta is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in Seta (aest).

Definitions for Seta

noun

  1. a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.

Origin of Seta

First recorded in 1785-95, seta is from the Latin word sēta, saeta bristle

Examples for Seta

Setula: a small stiff bristle or seta: in Diptera, the small thorn at the end of the subcosta.

In the higher forms a sterile foot and seta is present, and sterile cells or elaters occur with the spores.

The peripheral cells of the seta are thick-walled, and it has a central strand of elongated conducting cells.

The seta widens out at the base of the capsule into a region known as the apophysis.

The seta is short, the capsule being usually raised upon the archegoniophore.

We had great difficulty at the bridge of seta, for it had fallen in.

There is great variety in the length of the seta, which is sometimes practically absent.

The latter was defeated at seta in Ise, and killed in the midst of a rice-field by a stray arrow.

seta, a bristle, or a slender body or appendage resembling a bristle.

In most species the seta is serrated with distant teeth on one side.

Word Value for Seta
Scrable

4

Words with friends

4

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