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CHAETA (chaetae)

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Irregular inflected form: chaetae  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does chaeta mean? 

CHAETA (noun)
  The noun CHAETA has 1 sense:

1. a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid wormplay

  Familiarity information: CHAETA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHAETA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("chaeta" is a kind of...):

seta (a stiff hair or bristle)

Derivation:

chaetal (of or relating to chaetae (setae or bristles))


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