Noun: villus
| Singular | villus |
| Plural | villi |
Sample Sentences
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where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked [1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […] :]
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Studies of the viable blood cells with phase contrast microscopy showed peculiar cells that had numerous short villi and were arbitrarily called “hairy cells.” [1966 February 26, Robert Schrek, ““Hairy” Cells in Blood in Lymphoreticular Neoplastic Disease and “Flagellated” Cells of Normal Lymph Nodes”, in Blood, volume 27, number 2, page 199:]
Nouns inflected like villus
ophiopluteus,
faveolus,
saccus,
lampadarius,
scarus,
scapus,
solvus,
soleus,
socius,
acrorhagus,
red nucleus,
xystus,
phaseolus,
jelly fungus,
rust fungus,
computus,
paraflocculus,
sibilant rhonchus,
chalimus,
stratigotus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin villus (“shaggy hair”). See: Latin Nouns '
villus'.