CHORIONIC VILLUS

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Meaning:

One of the tiny villi that stick out of the fetal chorion and combine with the mother's uterine tissue to form the placenta

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("chorionic villus" is a kind of...):

villus (a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane)

Holonyms ("chorionic villus" is a part of...):

chorion (the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals))

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