Filiform synonyms

fĭl'ə-fôrm', fī'lə-

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threadlike
Resembling a thread in length or thinness.
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filamentous
Having the form of threads or filaments; filamented.
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stringy
Comprised of, or resembling, string or strings.
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fibrous (related)
Containing or composed of fibers
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filariform
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fililose
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filamentlike
Resembling or characteristic of a filament.
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thready
Of or covered with threads or threadlike parts; fibrous
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  • Amphicarpum, native in the southeastern United States, has fertile cleistogamous spikelets on filiform runners at the base of the culm, those on the terminal panicle are sterile.

  • Lankester (5) has shown (and his views have been accepted by Professors Korschelt and Heider in their treatise on Embryology) that the limb of the lowest Crustacea, such as Apus, consists of a corm or axis which may be jointed, and gives rise to outgrowths, either leaf-like or filiform, on its inner and outer margins (endites and exites).

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