fimbria
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
Definition of fimbria
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(plural-normally)A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
“When a follicle is mature, the egg within it bursts out of the ovary, and the Fallopian tube's fingerlike fimbria reach out and grab it.”
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noun
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(plural-normally)A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
“When a follicle is mature, the egg within it bursts out of the ovary, and the Fallopian tube's fingerlike fimbria reach out and grab it.”
- A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe.
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