Fibril

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small slender fiber or filament.
  • n. Anatomy Any threadlike fiber or filament, such as a myofibril or neurofibril, that is a constituent of a cell or larger structure.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A fine fibre or filament
  • n. Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A small fiber; a fibrilla; a filament.
  • n. Specifically In botany: One of the delicate cottony hairs or thread-like growths found upon the young rootlets of some plants.
  • n. A rootlet of a lichen.
  • n. One of the filaments which line the utricles of Sphagnum.
  • n. The stipe of some fungi: in this sense disused.
  • n. In histology, a delicate fiber, such as, according to one theory, is found in the protoplasm of cells.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fiber    fibre   
    Hyponym
    barb    cobweb    chromatid    myofibrilla    myofibril    sarcostyle    paraphysis    hypha    gossamer    rhizoid   
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    fibrilla   
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