villusn.
/ˈvɪləs/, U.S. /ˈvɪləs/ Botany and Anatomy.
1. Botany. A long, slender, soft hair.
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the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [noun]
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bristle1759
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seta1793
glochidium1882
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [noun] > villus
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cilia1785
villosity1828
strand1877
microvillus1953
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Villi, in Botany, are small Hairs like the Grain of Plush or Shag, with which, as with a kind of Excrescence, some Trees do abound.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 90 The multicellular heads of the..glandular hairs, villi, and scales.
2. Anatomy. A slender hair-like process or minute projection forming one of a number closely set upon a surface.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] > villi of intestines
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villosity1828
plural.
singular.1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. i. 40 In the intervals of the digestive action, only a few granules..can be seen at the end of the villus.1880 L. S. Beale Slight Ailm. 89 Every villus of the intestinal canal is supplied with nerve fibres.1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Crusta Villosa The fourth Tunic, or Coat, of the Stomach... On the inner Surface of this Coat, are seen innumerable Villi or Fibrillæ.
?1768–9 Encycl. Brit. (1771) I. 260/1 The villi of this intestine [sc. the duodenum] are thicker than in the stomach.
1792 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 82 179 The tongue itself is extremely villous, having some very long villi at the point, which act, I conceive, somewhat like capillary tubes.
1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. iv. 174 The..lacteals..originate in the numberless villi, or minute projections, with which the mucous membrane that lines the alimentary tube is covered.
1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 31 The surface of this layer is often elevated into a number of villi, or conical processes.
1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 26 It may be produced into many, often relatively large, papillæ or villi.
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