fimbria

noun3

1. •
   A series of threads or other projections resembling a fringe.
2. •
   [usually plural] An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.

   • When a follicle is mature, the egg within it bursts out of the ovary, and the Fallopian tube's fingerlike fimbria reach out and grab it.
3. •
   A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects.