pilus
English Thesaurus
1. hairlike structure especially on the surface of a cell or microorganism (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | hair, |
| definition | : | a filamentous projection or process on an organism (noun.animal) |
2. any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal (noun.body)
| hypernym | : | filament, filum, |
| definition | : | a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | ingrown hair, |
| definition | : | a hair that does not emerge from the follicle but remains embedded in the skin (usually causing inflammation) (noun.body) |
| part meronym | : | mammal, mammalian, |
| definition | : | any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | pilar, |
| definition | : | of or relating to a hair (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | pilar, |
| definition | : | of or relating to a hair (adj.pert) |
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