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Pilus Moderate

Pilus has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal

"there is a hair in my soup"

2

hairlike structure especially on the surface of a cell or microorganism

3

A hair.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
filament hair
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
ingrown hair
Rhyming Words
plus ulus hilus zelus talus polus dolus zulus solus milus malus tolus palus bolus obelus bellus cyclus pullus mullus amelus
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