microfibrillaradj.
/ˌmʌɪkrə(ʊ)fɪˈbrɪlə/, /ˌmʌɪkrə(ʊ)fʌɪˈbrɪlə/, U.S. /ˌmaɪkroʊˈfɪbrələr/ Biology.
Composed of microfibrils.
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microfibrillar1939
1939 Science 3 Feb. 101/2 Dr. I. W. Bailey described the microfibrillar and microcapillary structure of cell walls.
1956 Nature 18 Feb. 319/1 Sikorski and Woods pointed out the difficulty of reconciling the macrofibrillar type of structure observed in the follicle of a wool fibre with the occurrence of extended microfibrillar sheets in disintegrated fibres.
1972 Canad. Jrnl. Bot. 50 479 The microfibrillar material transports sucrose in pulses at about 400 cm h−1.
1989 B. Alberts et al. Molecular Biol. Cell (ed. 2) xiv. 808 In higher plants..cellulose (polyglucose) chains are packed tightly together in ribbonlike crystalline arrays to form the microfibrillar component of the cell wall.
1994 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 91 11386 If the CBD penetrates the microfibrillar structure of cotton more readily than that of BMCC, it could loosen up the structure further.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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