filamentousadj.
/ˌfɪləˈmɛntəs/, U.S. /ˌfɪləˈmɛn(t)əs/ 1. (a) Composed of or containing filaments or thread-like parts. (b) Resembling a filament or thread; thread-like.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [adjective] > fibrous
thready1597
towy1601
fibrous1626
filaceous1626
stringy1669
filamentous1682
fibrose1697
fibrillous1747
filamentose1848
fibrillated1849
fibry1882
fibrillate1884
the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [adjective] > like a thread
reaminga1398
threadish1578
thready1597
filamentous1682
fibrous1707
filiform1758
thread-like1774
fibry1802
filiformed1851
tendrilous1857
fibrine1881
1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants i. ii. 12 The filamentous Extremities of some Roots.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Alum Stone alum; it is nothing but a filamentous Talk soft to the touch.
1789 A. Crawford in Med. Communications 2 355 A saturated solution of the..salt..shoots into long filamentous chrystals.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. iv. 101 A small platina wire or other piece of filamentous matter.
1828 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. 605 A layer of dense and close filamentous cellular tissue unites the muscular to the mucous membrane.
1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 165 Ranging among the filamentous leaves of the Myriophyllum.
1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xiii. 74 The backs of the feathers..are filamentous or plumose.
2. Of a plant: Bearing filaments or thread-like parts.
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the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [adjective] > having hair
beardedc1450
downy1551
cottoned1578
friezed1578
maned1578
woolly1578
hairy1597
bristle-pointed1601
comous1657
fimbrious1657
tomentous1657
shagged1671
tomentose1698
crinated1724
villose1727
hispid1753
pubescent1760
setose1760
villous1766
lashed1776
silky1776
strigous1776
sericeous1777
awny1786
awned1787
strigose1793
shaggy1796
stupose1799
thready1804
feather-headed1821
setous1822
aristate1829
filamentous1835
fimbriate1836
puberulent1841
puberulous1841
sericated1848
barbate1853
strigillose1857
fimbrilliferous1866
ciliolate1870
fimbrillose1884
strigulated1899
1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 125 Some of the filamentous tribes.
1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 295 Many of these filamentous species [of Algæ]..multiply themselves by the contents of the cells which form their filaments.
3. Of or pertaining to a filament or filaments.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [adjective] > like a thread > of or relating to something thread-like
filamentous1860
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxxiii. 421 The seams..were developed..where..filamentous sliding was entirely out of the question.
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