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# follicle

«follicle» in Mova's school dictionary: **A tiny hole or sac in the skin from which a hair grows** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a follicle, follicles) — (science)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (science) A tiny hole or sac in the skin from which a hair grows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/follicle/#m1)

2) (science) A small sac in the body containing other things, such as an egg in the ovary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/follicle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on skin and hair: each hair grows from a follicle. When you get goose bumps, small muscles pull the hairs up. Shampoo adverts talk about «hair follicles».

### examples

- Each hair grows from a follicle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/follicle/#x1)
- A pimple can form when a follicle is blocked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/follicle/#x2)
- There are thousands of follicles on your head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/follicle/#x3)
- The diagram shows a hair inside its follicle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/follicle/#x4)
- Pulling out a hair can hurt the follicle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/follicle/#x5)
- Sweat glands sit near the hair follicles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/follicle/#x6)

### note

Countable. Pronounced FOL-ih-kul. Spelling: follicle — two l's, then -icle.

### In the corpora

- [Round follicles grow straight hair and flat or oval follicles grow curly hair, and hair shape is inherited from your family.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey/8/)
- ["Follically challenged" is a joking way to say bald; follicles are the tiny holes hairs grow from.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «follicle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/follicle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.