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What is the noun for pilis?

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pilus
  1. A hair.
  2. (microbiology) A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria.
  3. (biochemistry) A bacterial protein that has several biochemical functions
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The recycling of pilus and skin to agricultural applications as organic fertilizer reduces the sludge to be treated and disposed.”
      “From the similarity of the name, it has been thought that here Furius and pilus are only one man.”
      “What have we here to do with pilus and Furius, who defended the cause of injustice against justice?”
pili
  1. A tropical tree, Canarium ovatum, native to maritime Southeast Asia, New Guinea and northern Australia, and cultivated in the Philippines for its nuts.
  2. The edible nut of the tree.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The glands discharge their contents by the contraction of the arrector pili muscle and by any pressure applied to the gland.”
      “Bacterial colonization involves multiple factors, including fimbriae or pili, flagella, and surface polysaccharides.”
      “Associated with the follicle are sebaceous glands and the arrector pili smooth muscle fiber bundle.”
pilicide
  1. (chemistry) Any of several substances that reduce the number of hairlike pili on the surface of bacteria and thus reduce its ability to adhere to human tissue.
pilin
  1. Any of a class of fibrous proteins found in pilus structures in bacteria
piliation
  1. Covering with hairlike pili
pili
  1. plural of pilus
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The glands discharge their contents by the contraction of the arrector pili muscle and by any pressure applied to the gland.”
      “Bacterial colonization involves multiple factors, including fimbriae or pili, flagella, and surface polysaccharides.”
      “Associated with the follicle are sebaceous glands and the arrector pili smooth muscle fiber bundle.”
pilicides
  1. plural of pilicide
pilins
  1. plural of pilin
pilis
  1. plural of pili
  2. Examples:
    1. “In the 12th century Szentendre was an archdeaconry residence, the Church centre of Pilis County.”
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