p 3 i 1 l 1 u 1 s 1
5 letters · 7 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal
noun hairlike structure especially on the surface of a cell or microorganism
originLearned borrowing from Latin pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pile.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0