filamentary
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These simulations predicted what such filamentary structures should look like under current cosmological models.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
“Recent observations of our own Milky Way have increasingly highlighted the importance of filamentary molecular clouds as the primary sites of star formation,” Tokuda said.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2025
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
The clumps provided the framework for the large-scale filamentary and bubble-like structures that we see preserved in the universe today.
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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