noun
Meaning 1
A fine fibre or filament.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
fibril
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Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈfaɪbɹ(ə)l/
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noun
Meaning 2
Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 3
a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: filament, strand
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fiber, fibre
Narrower terms: barb, cobweb, gossamer, chromatid, myofibril, myofibrilla, sarcostyle, rhizoid, hypha, paraphysis
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fibrilla, diminutive of Latin fibra. Doublet of fibrilla. Compare fibre.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: fibril·la — fine fibre or filament
- Dutch: fibril — fine fibre or filament
- French: fibrille — fine fibre or filament
- Norwegian: fibrill — fine fibre or filament
- Catalan: fibril·la — fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants
- French: fibrille — fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants
- German: Fäserchen — fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants
- Greek: ινίδιο (inídio) — fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants
- Norwegian: fibrill — fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants
- Spanish: fibrilla — fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants