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HILUM (hila)

Dictionary entry overview: What does hilum mean?

• HILUM (noun)
The noun HILUM has 2 senses:

1. (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ
2. the scar on certain seeds marking its point of attachment to the funicle

Familiarity information: HILUM used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• HILUM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

hilum; hilus

Context example:

the hilus of the kidney

Hypernyms ("hilum" is a kind of...):

fissure ((anatomy) a long narrow slit or groove that divides an organ into lobes)

Domain category:

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

The scar on certain seeds marking its point of attachment to the funicle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hilum" is a kind of...):

point (the precise location of something; a spatially limited location)

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