Follicle

Noun

 * 1)  A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle.
 * 2) * 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, p. 345,
 * He could feel the follicles in his inner ear go crazy.
 * 1)  A type of primitive dry fruit produced by certain flowering plants.

Thesaurus
alveolation, alveolus, antrum, armpit, basin, boll, bowl, burr, capsule, cavity, cod, concave, concavity, crater, crypt, cup, depression, dip, fold, funnel chest, hole, hollow, hollow shell, hull, husk, lacuna, legume, legumen, pease cod, pericarp, pit, pocket, pod, punch bowl, scoop, seed pod, seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase, shell, silique, sink, sinus, socket, trough, vug

Etymology
From folliculus:.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 小囊, 濾泡, 滤泡, 毛囊
 * Dutch: follikel
 * Finnish: (hair) tuppi, (e.g. ovarian) rakkula, follikkeli


 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Polish: mieszek, woreczek , pęcherzyk , torebka
 * Russian: фолликул, мешочек
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 蓇葖
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Polish: mieszek
 * Russian: стручок, мешочек
 * Spanish: