hair follicle

1. 1.

   a small tubular cavity containing the root of a hair; small muscles and sebaceous glands are associated with them

   Broaderfollicle

   Partssebaceous gland

Questions about hair follicle

What does hair follicle mean?

hair follicle means "a small tubular cavity containing the root of a hair; small muscles and sebaceous glands are associated with them".

Is hair follicle a common word?

hair follicle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.