fimbria

Meanings

1. A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
2. An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
3. A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe.