Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In zoology and. anatomy, pertaining to a hilum, as of the kidney.
  • In botany, belonging to the hilum or scar produced by the attachment of a seed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Belonging to the hilum.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Relating to or near a hilum.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or located near a hilum

Etymologies

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A macaronic blend of Latin hīlum ("trifle") + -ar.

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Examples

  • Initially, Buller's drop is separated from the adaxial drop by its position on a knob called the hilar appendix, but the expanding drops coalesce when their surfaces make contact.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. and what, no mention of the mummy and the mummy returns brendan fraser style??? lame! at least booth could have been packing more guns or something …. .would have been hilar

    'Bones' recap: 'I love ancient remains. I really do.' | EW.com 2009

  • At least MY has the balls to try to say what he thinks (despite poor spelling and hilar grammar), and to try to actually think through tough issues.

    Matthew Yglesias » US vs Zimbabwe 2010

  • Even there however, I'd argue that it's functioning as an unmarked noun in the accusative case Rasna hilar "protecting Etruria".

    Contradictions with authors' accounts of Etruscan word Rasna 2009

  • His style is so hilar-iously messy (sample Evans epigram: "Possession is 99 percent of ownership") that it's fun -- the voice of a self-taught, self-centered mogul who was never mogully enough to command absolute power.

    The Last Tycoon, Take Two 2008

  • MTV put it in writing last night with the most anti-climactic "news story" i.e. press release ever: Britney Spears is indeed following up those hilar Russell Brand ads with an actual appearance at the VMAs this weekend.

    Stop the presses! Britney's opening the VMAs! | EW.com 2008

  • Patient were described with hilar nodes and parenchymal changes as well as extra-pulmonary findings.

    Sarcoid like clinical picture reported in 911 rescue workers james gaulte 2007

  • In that inscription, there's a phrase tular hilar neśl inscribed on a cippus which got me thinking more on what neśl and related items really mean.

    Etruscan nesl, TLE 515 and other random Etruscan stuff 2007

  • In that inscription, there's a phrase tular hilar neśl inscribed on a cippus which got me thinking more on what neśl and related items really mean.

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  • Patient were described with hilar nodes and parenchymal changes as well as extra-pulmonary findings.

    Archive 2007-05-01 james gaulte 2007

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