Filament Synonyms

fĭlə-mənt
A very fine continuous strand
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fiber
  2. fibril
  3. filum
  4. thread
A very slender natural or synthetic fiber
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fiber
  2. wire
  3. tendril
  4. thread
  5. strand
  6. fibril
  7. hair
  8. stalk
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Words Related to Filament

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Filament Sentence Examples

  • Each palpacle is a tactile filament, very extensile, without accessory filaments or nematocysts.

  • Cephalic shield continuous with neck; twelve to fourteen stomachal plates; a posterior pallial filament passing through a notch in shell.

  • Indeed the genus Oedogonium exhibits a high degree of specialization in its reproductive system, considering that its thallus has not advanced beyond the stage of an unbranched filament.

  • The anther is developed before the filament, and is always sessile in the first instance, and sometimes continues so.

  • The anther-lobes are united to the connective, which is either continuous with the filament or articulated with it.

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