English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin folliculus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɒlɪk(ə)l/
Noun
follicle (plural follicles)
- (anatomy) A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle.
- (botany) A type of primitive dry fruit produced by certain flowering plants.
Derived terms
Translations
anatomy
- Afrikaans: follikel
- Arabic: حُوَيْصِلَة f (ḥuwayṣila)
- Egyptian Arabic: حويصلة f (ḥuwaiṣela)
- Catalan: fol·licle (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 小囊 (zh) (xiǎonáng), 濾泡 / 滤泡 (zh) (lǜpào), (hair follicle) 毛囊 (zh) (máonáng)
- Czech: folikul (cs) m, váček (cs) m
- Dutch: follikel (nl) m
- Esperanto: foliklo
- Finnish: (hair) tuppi (fi), (e.g. ovarian) rakkula (fi), follikkeli (fi)
- French: follicule (fr) m
- Galician: folículo (gl) m
- German: (hair) Haarbalg m, Haarfollikel m
- Greek: λεμφοζίδιο n (lemfozídio)
- Hungarian: tüsző (hu), szőrtüsző (hu)
- Italian: follicolo (it) m
- Japanese: 卵胞 (ja) (らんぽう, ranpō), 濾胞 (ろほう, rohō), 小胞 (しょうほう, shōhō), 毛嚢 (ja) (もうのう, mōnō)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: çîkildan f, çikildan f
- Maori: ruahuru (of a hair)
- Polish: mieszek (pl) m, woreczek (pl) m, pęcherzyk (pl) m, torebka (pl) f, cebulka (pl) f
- Portuguese: folículo (pt) m
- Russian: фолли́кул (ru) m (follíkul), мешо́чек (ru) m (mešóček)
- Spanish: folículo (es) m
- Tocharian B: klokaśce
- Vietnamese: nang (vi)
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