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SETA [3 records]

Record 1 1990-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
DEF

Macrotrichia; commonly known as hairs; hollow structures developed as extensions of the epidermal layer; slender, hairlike appendages; appendages of the cuticle through which coccids secrete wax.

OBS

setae in the plural.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
DEF

Soie ou poil raide. Sétule.

Spanish

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Record 2 1980-11-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
OBS

A bristle.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique

Spanish

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Record 3 1977-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

... stiff setae or bristles, carried by the ventral appendages and possibly also by the ventral membrane ... [are] a variety of integumentary sensory organs ... [believed to] have had a tactile function. [in trilobites].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[Les poils sont des organes sensoriels tégumentaires chez un Trilobite et] semblent surtout abondants à la face ventrale, sous les plèvres et à la base des appendices (...)

Spanish

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