Noun: fimbria
| Singular | fimbria |
| Plural | fimbriae; fimbriæ |
Sample Sentences
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When a follicle is mature, the egg within it bursts out of the ovary, and the Fallopian tube's fingerlike fimbria reach out and grab it.
Nouns inflected like fimbria
furcula,
bursa,
ala,
stria,
habenula,
popliteal fossa,
patellula,
injuria,
catapulta,
actinula,
fossula,
fimbria,
gena,
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe. See: Latin Nouns '
fimbriae'.