filiform
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of filiform
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Red whirls on this rabbit’s tongue are filiform papillae, which roughen the tongue and help move food around the mouth.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
This enabled the AI tool to predict the type of papillae to within 85 per cent accuracy and to map the position of filiform and fungiform papillae on the tongue's surface.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 14, 2023
Of these numerous projections, the mushroom-shaped fungiform papillae hold our taste buds whereas the crown-shaped filiform papillae give the tongue its texture and sense of touch.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 14, 2023
The filiform papillae create an abrasive surface that performs mechanically, much like a cat’s rough tongue that is used for grooming.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Perennial, rather rigid, 1–2° high; leaves with narrow or filiform divisions or the upper entire; outer scales very short; rays short or usually none; achenes papillose.—Kan., south and westward.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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