Follicle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Anatomy A small bodily cavity or sac.
  • n. Anatomy A crypt or minute cul-de-sac or lacuna, such as the depression in the skin from which the hair emerges.
  • n. Anatomy An ovarian follicle.
  • n. Anatomy A spherical mass of cells usually containing a cavity.
  • n. Botany A dry, single-chambered fruit that splits along only one seam to release its seeds, as in larkspur and milkweed.
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  • n. A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle.
  • n. A type of primitive dry fruit produced by certain flowering plants.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
  • n.
  • n. A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac.
  • n. A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.
  • n. A small mass of adenoid tissue.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany: A dry one-celled seed-vessel consisting of a single carpel, and dehiscent only by the ventral suture, as in the milkweed and larkspur.
  • n. Any bladder-shaped appendage; a utricle.
  • n. In anatomy and zoology, a minute secretory or excretory cavity, sac, or tube; one of the ultimate blind ramifications of a secretory surface; a glandular cul-de-sac; a mucous crypt or lacuna; a minute nodule of lymphoid tissue.
  • n. In entomology, a cocoon; the covering made by a larva for its protection during the pupa state.
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  • n. any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cyst    vesicle   
    Hyponym
    hair follicle    Graafian follicle   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    crypt   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    diabolical   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    oocyte    dendritic-cell    cyst    mast-cell    diathermy   
     
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