• Any anatomical structure in the form of a fringe, but especially that around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube.
• 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.
• A wide band of material covering the ends of roof rafters, sometimes supporting a gutter in steep-slope roofing, but typically it is a border or trim in low-slope roofing.
• A face or front cover of an appliance, especially of a mobile phone.
• A dashboard.
• A flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands that make up the architrave, in the Ionic order.
• A broad well-defined band of color.
• A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
• A sash worn by certain members of the Catholic and Anglican churches.
• The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.
• The signboard above a shop or other location open to the public.
• Any of the parasitic nematode worms of superfamily Filarioidea that live in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis.
• A monster preying upon human beings and who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.
• Any of a group of gram-negative bacteria, of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by ticks, fleas and lice; they cause typhus and other diseases
