papilla
/pəˈpɪl.ə/
papilla noun: a vascular process of connective tissue extending into and nourishing the root of a hair, feather, or developing tooth.
Noun
papilla (plural papillae)
- A vascular process of connective tissue extending into and nourishing the root of a hair, feather, or developing tooth.
- Any of the vascular protuberances of the dermal layer of the skin extending into the epidermal layer and often containing tactile corpuscles.
- Any of the small protuberances on the upper surface of the tongue often containing taste buds.
- A small fleshy projection on a plant.
papilla meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Arabic and Persian
papilla in Hindi
- papilla
- अंकुरक aṅkurak
papilla in Tamil
- காம்பு அமைப்பு, சிறுமுகிழ் அமைப்பு, இழை, சிம்பி, ராமம், சிம்பு
papilla in Arabic
- nipple-like protuberance
- حُلَيْمَة ḥulayma
papilla in Persian
- nipple-like protuberance
- پاپیل pâpil
Examples of papilla in a sentence
- The high lip line during smiling shows the interdistal papillae in more than 85% of the patients.
- The papillae were then replica-plated to SD+Ade+Cyh plates to identify plasmiductants that had become Ura-.
- It obviously represents the prebursal papilla of those bursate nematodes which possess one.
Forms of papilla
| plural | papillae |
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Origin of papilla
Borrowed from Latin papilla (“a nipple, teat”).
Words formed from papilla
Words that rhyme with papilla
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- granadilla
- maxilla
- villa
- cascarilla
- cedilla
- coronilla
- mammilla
- mantilla
- Priscilla
- rachilla
- sabadilla
- sapodilla
- scilla
- scintilla
- tefilla
- Anguilla
- antiguerrilla
- aspergilla
- axizilla
- bitchzilla
- bridezilla
- camarilla
- Chipzilla
- couplezilla
- cuntzilla
- Drusilla
- Fedzilla
- fibrilla
- Godzilla
- groomzilla
- hemimaxilla
- hydrilla
- manilla
- millah
- momzilla
- perilla
- premaxilla
- promzilla
- salsilla
- scrilla
- sensilla
- septomaxilla
- serial killer
- sherilla
- Silla
- sinsemilla
- spirilla
- submaxilla
Questions about papilla
- What does papilla mean?
- Papilla means a vascular process of connective tissue extending into and nourishing the root of a hair, feather, or developing tooth.
- What is papilla in Hindi?
- Papilla in Hindi is अंकुरक (aṅkurak). See Papilla meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is papilla?
- Papilla is a noun.
- How do you pronounce papilla?
- Papilla is pronounced /pəˈpɪl.ə/.
- What is the plural of papilla?
- The plural of papilla is papillae.
Words near papilla in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: papilla (page history and authors); अंकुरक (Hindi) (page history and authors); papilla (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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