filamentous

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"These seem to lack that main shaft down the middle and are just a really long collection of very long, filamentous-like structures," said Mark Norell, a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

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  1. Like a thread; composed of threads or filaments. There are several filamentous microbia which can give rise to the same appearance. Science, III. 520. Except in Amphioxus, the branchiæ are always lamellar, or filamentous, appendages of more or fewer of the visceral arches. Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 91.
  2. Capable of being drawn out into filaments, like mucus; hence, in medicine, containing a stringy substance: as, filamentous urine.
  3. Having filaments; fringed or fringe-like; fimbriate.
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  • Inside his mock-filamentous head (opaque, with a trompe-l'oeil holo giving the illusion of tungsten-occupied transparency), buckytube architecture granted him a processing capacity of many, many teraflops, the equivalent of several oldtime supercomputers. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 02 - February 2000
  • Desmids are typically one-celled, though sometimes filamentous or colonial, and are divided symmetrically into semicells connected at a central point.
  • The group tself is made of filamentous, unicellular protists. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Live-cell imaging techniques are now routinely used to study filamentous fungi. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The X-ray also depicts a conifer with different leaf angles and a more filamentous appearance than the shoot in the lung tissue, Thomas said. —  CBC | Top Stories News
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  1. = French filamenteux = Spanish Portuguese Italian filamentoso; as filament + -ous.
 

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