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pilus
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As a noun, pilus means a hair.
Meanings of pilus
4 meaningsnoun
A hair.
microbiologyA hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria.
proteinA bacterial protein that has several biochemical functions
Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammalbody
“there is a hair in my soup”
Similar: hair
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
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