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Pilus vs Pinus - What's the difference?

pilus | pinus |

As a noun pilus

is a hair.

As a proper noun pinus is

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pilus

English

Noun

(pili)
  • A hair.
  • (microbiology) A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria.

    • Synonyms

    * (hairlike appendage) fimbria

    See also

    * flagellum * (wikipedia "pilus")

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    pinus

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (botany) Any member of the genus Pinus ; a pine.
  • * 1839 , J. C. Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine (page 420)
    • I have been invited to see the garden of Baron Zanoli, situated on the high road from Monza to Milan, in which I am told there are fine exotic trees and shrubs, and especially a rich collection of pinuses .
  • * 1853 , George Greenwood, The tree-lifter (page 265)
    • As the generality of pinuses grow by nature into magnificent and gigantic forest-trees, they should, I think, be planted in our parks as well as in our flower-gardens, shrubberies, and lawns.
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