setæ

A form of seta — A bristle or hair.

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Meanings

noun
  1. obsoletepluralplural of seta

    Branches erect, three or four feet high, pale green, covered all over with small, weak, nearly equal setæ, except at the extremities, which are unarmed, like the very numerous, slender branchlets.

    1820, John Lindley, Rosarum Monographia; Or, A Botanical History of Roses, page 42
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APA

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Chicago

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