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filamentous, a.|fɪləˈmɛntəs|
[f. as prec. + -ous.]
1. a. Composed of or containing filaments or thread-like parts. b. Resembling a filament or thread; thread-like.
1671Grew Anat. Plants i. ii. §8 (1682) 12 The filamentous Extremities of some Roots. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Alum, Stone alum; it is nothing but a filamentous Talk soft to the touch. 1789A. Crawford in Med. Commun. II. 355 A saturated solution of the..salt..shoots into long filamentous chrystals. 1827Faraday Chem. Manip. iv. 101 A small platina wire or other piece of filamentous matter. 1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 609 A layer of dense and close filamentous cellular tissue unites the muscular to the mucous membrane. 1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 165 Ranging among the filamentous leaves of the Myriophyllum. 1871Darwin Desc. Man II. xiii. 74 The backs of the feathers..are filamentous or plumose.
2. Of a plant: Bearing filaments or thread-like parts.
1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 125 Some of the filamentous tribes. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. 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.
1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xxxiii. 421 The seams..were developed..where..filamentous sliding was entirely out of the question. |