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Papilla

noun
(pl. papillae)
1.
(botany) a tiny outgrowth on the surface of a petal or leaf.
2.
A small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell.
3.
A small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather.



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"Papilla" Quotes from Famous Books



... with excessively short and fine spines in tufts, chiefly near the extremity. In a specimen with a capitulum only one fifth of an inch long, the penis consisted of a mere pointed papilla, not so long as the caudal appendage, and therefore equalling in length only the lower segment of the pedicel of ...
— A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) - The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes • Charles Darwin


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