filamentous

Historical Examples

• In some they are spherical, in others rod-like, filamentous or perhaps of other forms.

  Being Well-Born

  Michael F. Guyer

• Filamentose, or Filamentous, bearing or formed of slender threads.

  The Elements of Botany

  Asa Gray

• In structure they are expanded or filamentous, nearly always rose-coloured or purple in colour.

  Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils

  Peter Gray

• The first use made of the filamentous matter, was to substitute it for the wadding used in quilted counterpanes.

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458

  Various

• The external gills are moderately long, slender, and filamentous; the yolk sac is still moderately large.

  Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca

  William E. Duellman