🇬🇧🇪🇸 follicle - folículo piloso : English Lesson

Meaning of "follicle" ("folículo piloso"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A follicle is a very tiny hole in your skin that a hair grows out of, kind of like a little underground bedroom for each hair. Your body is covered in these small openings, even in places where the hairs are so thin you can hardly see them. When a hair grows, it starts deep inside the follicle and then pokes out through your skin. Sometimes follicles can get clogged with oil and dirt, which can cause pimples. Follicles are important because they help hairs grow, and hairs help protect your skin and keep you warm.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I told my hair follicles, “Please grow straight,” and they replied by making my hair look like exploded noodles.

When my brother got a buzz cut, his follicles looked like little dots saying, “Don’t worry, we’ll be back.”

The wind was so cold that I’m pretty sure my arm follicles tried to grow emergency sweaters.

I told my arm follicles to grow a mighty forest, but they only managed a tiny, fuzzy shrub.

Each hair grows from its own follicle, so your body is like a giant farm with millions of teeny-tiny hair-planting holes all working at once.

He plucked an eyebrow hair and peered at the tiny follicle on his skin, a small dot. He touched two nearby follicle spots, then counted one empty follicle where the hair had been. He watched a pale tip push from a new follicle and smiled, relieved as the last follicle held the hair.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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