Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bristle or seta, especially of an annelid worm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, a bristle; a seta: used chiefly in composition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
chitinous bristle of anannelid worm
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin, from Greek khaitē, long hair.]
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From Ancient Greek χαίτη (chaite, "crest, mane, flowing hair, foliage")
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