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Pilus

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A hair.
  2. 2
    hairlike structure especially on the surface of a cell or microorganism wordnet
  3. 3
    A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria.
  4. 4
    any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal wordnet
  5. 5
    A bacterial protein that has several biochemical functions.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pile.

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