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noun, plural tra·bec·u·lae 
[-lee] .
[-lee] . 1.
Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
2.
Botany. one of the projections from the cell wall that extends across the cavity of the ducts of certain plants, or the plate of cells across the cavity of the sporangium of a moss.
Origin:
1815–25; < Neo-Latin trabēcula, Latin: little beam, equivalent to trabē(s) beam + -cula -cule1
1815–25; < Neo-Latin trabēcula, Latin: little beam, equivalent to trabē(s) beam + -cula -cule1
Related forms
in·ter·tra·bec·u·lar, adjective
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Trabecula
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trabecula tra·bec·u·la (trə-běk'yə-lə)
n. pl. tra·bec·u·lae (-lē')
Any of the supporting strands of connective tissue projecting into an organ and constituting part of the framework of that organ.
Any of the fine spicules forming a network in cancellous bone.
tra·bec'u·lar adj.
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