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FIBRILLA

Definition: FIBRILLA

FIBRILLA

Noun

1. A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Fibrilla \Fi*bril"la\, noun; plural Fibrill[AE]. [New Latin expression. See Fibril.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Crosswords: FIBRILLA

English words defined with "FIBRILLA": FibrillAe. (references)
Non-English Usage: "FIBRILLA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (fibril), Spanish (fibril, fibrilla).

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Modern Translations: FIBRILLA

Language Translations for "FIBRILLA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

fibër e vogël, qime thithëse (fibril). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ليف (bast, fiber, fibre, floss), ‏جذر شعري. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ליפון (fibril), סיבית (chipboard, fibril). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

izomrost (fiber, fibre). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ibrillafay

   

Russian 

  

волоконце (fibril), жилка (fibril, vein). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

filament (fibril, filament). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fibrilla (fibril). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

elyaf (fiber, fibre, staple). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

волокнинка (fibril), жилка (fibril, streak). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: FIBRILLA

Derivations

Words beginning with "FIBRILLA": fibrillae, fibrillar, fibrillate, fibrillated, fibrillates, fibrillating, fibrillation, fibrillations. (additional references)

Words containing "FIBRILLA": defibrillate, defibrillated, defibrillates, defibrillating, defibrillation, defibrillations, defibrillator, defibrillators, microfibrillar, myofibrillar, neurofibrillary. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "FIBRILLA"

Words rhyming with "FIBRILLA" (pronounced 'Fi*bril"la'): Ala, Algarovilla, Ampulla, Angola, Armilla, Arolla, Axilla, Bandala, Banderilla, Barilla, bengola, Beteela, Bulla, Cabrilla, Calcavella, Calla, Camarilla, Canella, Capella, Cappella, Carambola, Cedilla, Cella, Chinchilla, Cicala, Claribella, Coccinella, Codilla, Columbella, Columella, Coronilla, Dendrocoela, Emgalla, Euplectella, Fabella, Favella, Fenes-tella, flotilla, Fovilla, Fringilla, gala, Gentianella, gorgonzola, gorilla, granadilla, Granilla, guerilla, Gula, Impalla, Intermaxilla. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FIBRILLA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-f-i-i-l-l-r"

-1 letter: bifilar.

-2 letters: fibril, filial.

-3 letters: alibi, biali, brail, brill, filar, flail, flair, frail, frill, ilial, libra, libri.

-4 letters: abri, alif, aril, bail, ball, barf, bill, birl, fail, fair, fall, farl, fiar, fila, fill, flab, ilia, lair, lari, liar, lira, liri, rail, rial, rill.

-5 letters: ail, air, alb, all, arb, arf, bal, bar, bra, far, fib.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-f-i-i-l-l-r"
 

+1 letter: bifilarly, fibrillae, fibrillar.

 

+2 letters: fibrillate.

 

+3 letters: fibrillated, fibrillates, fireballing.

 

+4 letters: defibrillate, fertilizable, fibrillating, fibrillation, myofibrillar.

 

+5 letters: defibrillated, defibrillates, defibrillator, fibrillations, filterability, liebfraumilch, microfilmable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FIBRILLA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 49 42 52 49 4C 4C 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    ..    -...    .-.    ..    .-..    .-..    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001001 01000010 01010010 01001001 01001100 01001100 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#66 &#82 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 0042 0052 0049 004C 004C 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4043365243464635

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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