seta

Noun

1. A bristle or hair.
   • The setal arrangement in Puncia therefore could represent an evolutionary intermediate step appropriate to a wide-gaped ostracod, in which a domiciliar 'early warning' system is afforded by the frill and extremely long...
2. The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort.
   • The latter has the sporophyte seta 4 cells in diam. and has thecal Lejeunea-type androecial branches[…] - 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian,...