Usually means: Short, hair-like bacterial appendages.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. fimbriae: Merriam-Webster
  2. fimbriae: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fimbriae: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fimbriae: Vocabulary.com
  5. fimbriae: Wordnik
  6. fimbriae: Wiktionary
  7. Fimbriae: Dictionary.com
  8. Fimbriae: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Fimbriae: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. fimbriae: FreeDictionary.org
  11. fimbriae: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. fimbriae: Dictionary.com
  13. Fimbriae: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fimbriae: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fimbriae: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. fimbriae: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  4. fimbriae: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fimbriae: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

(Note: See fimbria as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (fimbria)

noun:  (biology) A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
noun:  (anatomy, usually in the plural) An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
noun:  (bacteriology) A 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.
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