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And while my identification skills are at the "purple one with yellow stripes" level, I do also enjoy the evocative names: three-stripe fusilier, diagonal-banded sweetlips, filamented flake, oblong silver biddy and freckled goatfish, not to mention the charming category of odd-shaped bottom dwellers.

Dive Time 2009

They are composed, however, not of wax, but of a bark-like filamented fibre, and the comb of the anthrene is much neater than the comb of the wasp.

The History of Animals 2002

A filamented web of light sprawl 'ed in the sickle-sbaped curve of a dozen bright stars.

Starways Anderson, Poul 1956

But there is another large group of parrots, the _Loriidae_ or brush-tongued parrots, some of the most interesting and brightly coloured of the tribe, which, when wild, subsist principally upon the pollen and nectar of flowers, notably the various species of _Eucalyptus_, the filamented tongues of these parrots being peculiarly adapted for obtaining this.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

Illumination is supplied by a small tungsten-filamented, electric,

Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911

By the most delicate skill of architecture this gigantic filamented structure has been raised into the air.

Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

A horizontal puller (Sutter P-97) was used to pull patch pipettes (3-4. 5 MΩ) from filamented borosilicate glass (Clark/WPI, 1.2 mm outside diameter).

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Amanda R. Lorier et al. 2010

The filamented morphology of the nlpD mutant indicates that NlpD is involved in cell separation; however, deletion of nlpD did not affect in vitro growth rate.

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Avital Tidhar et al. 2009

In terms of Liouville’s theorem, the former occupy a smooth volume in phase space (stable under coarse graining) while the latter live in a very highly filamented part of phase space (not stable under coarse graining).

Arrow of Time FAQ Sean 2007

I’m still not sure who started it, but there was a sudden violence of fire and micro-filamented steel.

Archive 2005-04-01 JackMangan 2005