fibrillin
noun
fibrillin is a noun meaning “A glycoprotein present in human skin, necessary for forming the elastic fibres in connective tissue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-B-R-I-L-L-I-N, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fibrillin is fibrillins.
What does fibrillin mean?
noun
- 1
A glycoprotein present in human skin, necessary for forming the elastic fibres in connective tissue.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fibrillin
- fibrillins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fibrillin?
Fibrillin appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fibrillin come from?
From fibril + -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).