setae
Noun
The word is derived from seta
Meaning
of Seta
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnagrams
Examples
In lower food concentrations, the feeding basket is pushed through the water for over half a metre in an opened position, and then the algae are combed to the mouth opening with special setae (bristles) on the inner side of the thoracopods.
The spatula-shaped setae arranged in lamellae on gecko footpads enable attractive van der Waals' forces between the β-keratin lamellae/setae/spatulae structures and the surface.
These measures include having spiny bristles or long fine hair-like setae with detachable tips that will irritate by lodging in the skin or mucous membranes.
The setae on the feet of geckos are also self-cleaning and will usually remove any clogging dirt within a few steps.
Uroplatus fimbriatus clinging to glass Use of small van der Waals attraction force requires very large surface areas: every square millimeter of a gecko's footpad contains about 14,000 hair-like setae.
In others, such as Echiurus, there are also further setae near the posterior end of the animal.