Definition of pili Pili
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We found 3 definitions of pili from 2 different sources.
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What does pili mean?
Wiktionary 
- pili (Noun)
Plural of pilus.
Part of speech
🔤- pili, noun, plural of pilus.
WordNet
NounPlural: piluses |
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| pilus - hairlike structure especially on the surface of a cell or microorganism | ||
| hair a filamentous projection or process on an organism | ||
| pilus - any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; "there is a hair in my soup" | ||
| hair | ||
| filum, filament a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current | ||
| mammal, mammalian any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | ||
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Wiktionary
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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pilus
pī′lus, n. one of the slender hairs on plants:—pl. Pī′li. [L.]
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer 💥
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pilus
In the southwest of Messenia, was situated at the foot of Mount Ægaleos on a promontory at the northern entrance of the basin, now called the Bay of Navarino, the largest and safest harbor of Greece. In the second Messenian war the inhabitants of Pylos offered a long and brave resistance to the Spartans; but after the capture of Ira, they were obliged to quit their native country with the rest of the Messenians. It again became memorable in the Peloponnesian war, when the Athenians under Demosthenes built a fort on the promontory Coryphasium, a little south of the ancient city, and just within the northern entrance of the harbor (425 B.C.). The attempts of the Spartans to dislodge the Athenians proved unavailing; and the capture by Cleon of the Spartans, who had landed in the island of Sphacteria, was one of the most important events in the whole war.
Part of speech
🔤- pilus, noun, singular of pili.
