Definitions for villous

villous vil·lous

Spelling: [vil-uh s]
IPA: /ˈvɪl əs/

Villous is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in villous (illosuv).

Definitions for villous

adjective

  1. covered with or of the nature of villi.
  2. having villiform processes.
  3. Botany. pubescent with long and soft hairs that are not interwoven.

Origin of villous

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at villose, -ous

Examples for villous

Before leaving the inner aspect of the pedal wing it supplies a deep branch to the heel and the villous tissue.

Spikelets are 2- to 3-flowered, distichously racemed, narrowly turbinate, villous.

villous: Beset with short, undivided, hair-like extensions (Fig. 150, d).

The first glume is rigidly coriaceous, gradually narrowed from a villous base to an erect scabrid awn, 1-nerved.

The villous processes and fringes may take on an exaggerated growth, and give rise to pedunculated and other forms of loose body.

The pistillum is similarly dotted; the labellum internally striated, trifid, and villous at the apex.

The pileus is somewhat coriaceous, firm, pulvinate, villous.

The callus of the third glume is short, pointed and villous.

The leaf-sheath is somewhat tight, glabrous, membranous at the mouth which is villous.

The stem is compressed and villous, often channelled, nearly erect.

Word Value for villous
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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