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HILUM
- a small opening in a bodily organ [n HILA]
- a small opening in a bodily organ, also HILUS [n HILA]
- a. the mark or scar on a seed produced by separation from its funicle or placenta b. the nucleus of a granule of starch
- mark or scar on a spore at the point of attachment to the spore-bearing structure
- the region at which the vessels, nerves, etc., enter or emerge from a part
- a scar on a seed (as a bean) marking the point of attachment of the ovule
- notch in or opening from a bodily part suggesting the hilum of a bean