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Any of several minute mites, often parasitic in hair follicles.

1. A tissue that can undergo repeated contraction and relaxation, so that it is able to produce movement of body parts, maintain tension, or pump fluids within the body.

There are three types: voluntary striped muscle, involuntary smooth muscle, and branched or heart muscle.

2. An organ composed of bundles or sheets of muscle tissue, bound together with connective tissue and with tendons by which the contracting part is attached to the bones that it moves.
3. Power and influence, especially in the political, financial, or military spheres.
4. Physical strength; that is, "put some muscle into it".
5. Slang: men who are employed to intimidate, harm, or menace people.
6. To move using strength and force or effort, or to make someone or something move in this way.
7. Etymology: via French, from Latin musculus, literally "small mouse" from mus, "mouse"; from the supposed resemblance of some muscles to mice.

Any small bone; such as, the tiny bones within the human ear.

1. A very small piece of something; such as, airborne particles.
2. A very small amount of something: "There wasn't a particle of truth in anything the politician said."
3. A minute body that is considered to have finite mass but negligible size.
4. Any one of the basic units of matter; such as, a molecule, an atom, or an electron.
5. A unit of matter smaller than the atom or its main components.
6. Etymology: from Latin particula "small part".

1. A small stalk or stalklike structure; especially, one supporting or connecting an organ or other body part.
2. A slender footlike or stemlike part, as that which exists at the base of a tumor.
3. Part of a skin or tissue graft that is left temporarily attached to the original site.

A small appendage.

1. A five-pointed star, often held to have magical or mystical significance, formed by five straight lines connecting the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon in the completed figure.
2. Etymology: from medieval Latin pentaculum, literally "little five" from Greek penta-, "five".

1. The highest or topmost point or level of something: "She was at the pinnacle of her career."
2. A natural peak, especially a distinctively pointed one on a mountain or in a mountain range.
3. In architecture, a pointed ornament on top of a buttress or parapet of a building.
4. Etymology: via French from Late Latin pinnaculum, literally "little feather".

The layer of the exoskeleton of certain crustaceans and arthropods beneath the epicuticle, which contains chitin as the principal constituent; it is composed of an endocuticle and an exocuticle.

A small branch (of a zoophyte).

1. A container that holds, contains, or receives a liquid or solid: Mary placed a receptacle outside her front door for people to put their wet umbrellas in before coming inside for dinner.
2. The end of a flower stalk, bearing the parts of a flower, or the florets of a composite flower: The biology teacher, Mrs. Smart, asked her students, "Did you know that when you eat a strawberry, you are actually eating the large receptacle of the blossom, which isn’t really a fruit at all"?
3. In a plant that reproduces through spores; such as, a liverwort or the part that bears the reproductive organs: The receptacles of the brown algae are at the ends of its branches which are formations enclosing its generative elements.
4. Etymology: directly or via French from Latin receptaculum, "a small place in which to store something received". © ALL rights are reserved.

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1. A grid of fine lines in the focus of an optical instrument, used for determining the scale or position of what is being looked at.
2. Etymology: from Latin reticulum, "little net".

1. A dry fruit consisting of a broad flat pod divided by a membrane into two seed chambers.
2. Etymology: from modern Latin, "little pod" from Latin siliqua, "seed pod".

1. The larger of two fluid-filled sacs in the labyrinth of the inner ear, into which the semicircular canals open.
2. The bladder-shaped fruit of some plants.
3. Etymology: directly or via French utricule from Latin utriculus, "little leather bottle" from uter, "leather bottle".