setireme

English edit

Etymology edit

From seta + Latin remus (“an oar”).

Noun edit

setireme (plural setiremes)

(zoology, dated, rare) A swimming leg (of an insect) having a fringe of hairs on the margin.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “setireme”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

eremites