pi·lus (p  l s)n. pl. pi·li (-l  ) A hair or hairlike structure, especially on the surface of a cell or microorganism. [Latin.] |
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| Noun | 1. | pilus - any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup" mammal, mammalian - any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk ingrown hair - a hair that does not emerge from the follicle but remains embedded in the skin (usually causing inflammation) |
| 2. | pilus - hairlike structure especially on the surface of a cell or microorganism micro-organism, microorganism - any organism of microscopic size hair - a filamentous projection or process on an organism |
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