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noun

  • Hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of a plant organ.
  • A hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism). These structures serve either for locomotion by moving or as sensors.
  • One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing.

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