Usually means: Tiny, finger-like intestinal projection.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. villus: Merriam-Webster
  2. villus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. villus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. villus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. villus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Villus, villus: Wordnik
  7. villus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. villus: Wiktionary
  9. villus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. villus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. villus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. villus: Dictionary.com
  13. Villus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Villus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. villus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. villus: Rhymezone
  17. Villus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. villus: FreeDictionary.org
  19. villus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. villus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. villus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. villus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. villus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Villus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Villus: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. villus (plural is villi): Sound Alike Words
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. villus: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. villus: Medical dictionary
  10. Villus: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. villus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Bryological (No longer online)

(Note: See villi as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (biology) A small projection from a membrane, particularly those found in the mucous membranes of the intestines.
noun:  (botany) One of the fine soft hairs on fruits, flowers, and other parts of plants.

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