pilus

About 0.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A hair.
2. noun A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria.
3. noun A bacterial protein that has several biochemical functions.

Similar words

spicule pillicock spiculum pillarlet hairpin penicil hair pin pistillum pilum pell

Often followed by

is and assembly of biogenesis formation expression subunits subunit

Word family

pili