Fibril

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  • noun. A small slender fiber or filament.
  • noun. A threadlike fiber or filament, such as a myofibril or neurofibril, that is a constituent of a cell or larger structure.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In histology, a delicate fiber, such as, according to one theory, is found in the protoplasm of cells.
  • noun. A small fiber; a fibrilla; a filament.
  • noun. Specifically In botany: One of the delicate cottony hairs or thread-like growths found upon the young rootlets of some plants.
  • noun. A rootlet of a lichen.
  • noun. One of the filaments which line the utricles of Sphagnum.
  • noun. The stipe of some fungi: in this sense disused.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A fine fibre or filament
  • noun. Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
  • Word Usage
    "Figure 6A-B), but at a higher resolution it was possible to clearly identify that the process of 'fibril' developing into a mature fibril assembly had been affected by the ligand, when compared to α-syn alone ("
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    fiber  fibre  
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    barb  chromatid  cobweb  gossamer  hypha  
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    fibrilla