trabecula

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A small supporting beam.
2. noun A small mineralized spicule that forms a network in spongy bone.
3. noun A fibrous strand of connective tissue that supports it in place.
4. noun Either of a pair of movable appendages on the head, in front of the antennae, of some mallophagous insects.
5. noun One of the fleshy columns, or columnae carneae, in the ventricle of the heart, to which the chordae tendineae are attached.
6. noun A projection from the cell wall across the cell cavity of the ducts of certain plants.

Similar words

trabecule collar beam torsal collar brow taenia brace bolster crossbeam bead

Often followed by

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Word family

trabeculae trabecular trabeculas trabeculate