Meanings
adjectivechaetic (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyHaving long thick hairs or bristles.
Aporous sensilla with flexible sockets, presenting various lengths and shapes (bristle, trichoid, styloconic, chaetic or basiconic) consist mainly of exocuticular material and show no substructures in thin sections and cross-fractures⁷⁰.
2023 January 12, Artur Taszakowski, Adrian Masłowski, Kent M. Daane, Jolanta Brożek, “Closer view of antennal sensory organs of two Leptoglossus species (Insecta, Hemiptera, Coreidae)”, in Scientific Reports, volume 13, →DOI, article 617, page 10
Origin
From Ancient Greek χαίτη (khaítē, “mane; loose, flowing hair”) + -ic.
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