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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 se·ta /ˈsitə/
 剛毛

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 se·ta /ˈsɪtə/ 名詞
 (複setae)鬃,剛毛,任何剛毛樣結構物,如某些植物的多細胞莖

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Se·ta n.; pl. Setae
 1. Biol. Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss.
 2. Zool. (a) One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid.  They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in locomotion and for defense.  They are very diverse in form. (b) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 seta
      n 1: stalk of a moss capsule
      2: a stiff hair or bristle
      [also: setae (pl)]