Usually means: Hair-like appendage on bacteria.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. pilus: Merriam-Webster
  2. pilus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. pilus: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pilus: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pilus, pilus: Wordnik
  6. pilus: Wiktionary
  7. pilus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. pilus: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. pilus: Dictionary.com
  10. Pilus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. pilus: Rhymezone
  12. pilus: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pilus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. pilus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pilus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. pilus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  5. pilus: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PILUS: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pilus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)

(Note: See pili as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pilus)

noun:  A hair.
noun:  (microbiology) A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria.
noun:  (biochemistry) A bacterial protein that has several biochemical functions.

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