| NOUN | animal | villus | a minute hairlike projection / projection on mucous membrane |
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| Meaning | A minute hairlike projection / projection on mucous membrane. | |
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| Narrower | chorionic villus | One of the tiny villi that stick out of the fetal chorion and combine with the mother's uterine tissue to form the placenta |
| Broader | process, outgrowth, appendage | A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant |
| Spanish | vellosidad | |
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