filamentary
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At center left and right, the white material curves sharply inward from the filamentary dust cage's edges and goes toward the neutron star's location, as if the waist of the nebula is pinched.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2023
That’s one of the plans that we have to test this idea of the stretching and elongation and alignment of these filamentary structures.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2023
They also predict that when scholars are able to observe these radio structures in higher resolution, they will discover additional features, including "a much more complex filamentary structure," among other things.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2021
Molecular clouds have a complex filamentary structure, similar to cirrus clouds in Earth’s atmosphere, but much less dense.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
The florets of the disk are chocolate colour, whence issue twirled filamentary forms, which impart to the centre of flower the appearance of being netted with a golden thread.
From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by John Wood
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