sə̇ˈta(a)rēə noun
Etymology: New Latin, from seta + -aria
1.
a. capitalized : a large and widely distributed genus of annual and perennial grasses having a dense or open cylindrical inflorescence in which the individual spikelets are subtended by one or more bristles that persist after the spikelets fall and including several grasses that yield forage or hay — see foxtail 2a, foxtail millet
b. -s : any grass of the genus Setaria
2. capitalized : a genus of filarial worms parasitic as adults in the body cavity of various ungulate mammals and producing larvae that wander in the tissues and occasionally invade the eye