fimbria
/ˈfɪm.bɹi.ə/noun
fimbria is a noun meaning “An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-M-B-R-I-A, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fimbria is fimbriae or fimbriæ.
What does fimbria mean?
noun
- 1
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
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fimbria?
- /ˈfɪm.bɹi.ə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fimbria
- fimbriae plural
- fimbriæ plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fimbria?
Fimbria appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).
Fimbria in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense anatomy:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fimbria come from?
Learned borrowing from Late Latin fimbria (“a border, fringe”), from Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”). Doublet of fringe.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).