setule

setule (plural setules)

1. A setula.
   • 2023, Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility, Hamish Hamilton, page 86:

     So he clung to the sides of the vertical tunnel, le wormhole, employing the setules covering his legs, that is, millions of tiny spider-hairs with triangular tips, a wall-creeper physiology if you wish, a hang-upside-down-from-the-ceiling anatomical boon.

• setulate

• elutes