fibril
Americannoun
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a small or fine fiber or filament.
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Botany. any of the delicate hairs on the young roots of some plants.
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Cell Biology. any threadlike structure or filament.
noun
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a small fibre or part of a fibre
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biology a threadlike structure, such as a root hair or a thread of muscle tissue
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of fibril
1655–65; < New Latin fibrilla, equivalent to Latin fibr ( a ) fiber + -illa diminutive suffix
Example Sentences
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Each fibril had to be carefully designed -- larger fibrils had weaker adhesion, while the smaller fibrils were hard to fabricate and prone to collapse and degradation.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024
Every additional fibril allows for more weight to be supported.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024
These cross-β fibril assemblies are also useful building blocks within designer biomaterials for medical applications, but their resemblance to their amyloid beta cousins, whose tangles are a symptom of neurodegenerative disease, is concerning.
From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024
In the absence of atomic-level information on mammalian prions, the high-resolution structure of the amyloid of infectious prion HET-s is noteworthy for its further elements of fibril architecture.
From Nature • Nov. 8, 2016
The pileus is moist, not viscid, smooth or sprinkled with a whitish superficial fibril, flesh changing color when dry, and rather thin.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
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