fimbria

From Latin fimbria.

fimbria (plural fimbriae or fimbriæ)

1. (anatomy) Any anatomical structure in the form of a fringe, but especially that around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
2. (bacteriology) hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects.

• (bacteriology): pilus

Found in Late Latin and Vulgar Latin. From fimbriae.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfim.bri.a/, [ˈfɪm.bri.a]

fimbria f (genitive fimbriae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin) fringe, border, edge

First declension.

• fimbriātus

• fimbria in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fimbria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fimbria in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fimbria in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

From Latin fimbria.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfimbɾja/, [ˈfĩmbɾja]

fimbria f (plural fimbrias)

1. (anatomy) fimbria (structure in the form of a fringe)

• “fimbria” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.