1.NounA series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
"When a follicle is mature, the egg within it bursts out of the ovary, and the Fallopian tube's fingerlike fimbria reach out and grab it."
2.NounAn individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
"When a follicle is mature, the egg within it bursts out of the ovary, and the Fallopian tube's fingerlike fimbria reach out and grab it."
3.NounA 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.