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Bobbin
noun · 78% connection
A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a se…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Branch
noun · 78% connection
Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Clue
noun · 78% connection
A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Darn
verb · 78% connection
To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Delicacy
adjective · 78% connection
Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Fibriform
adjective · 78% connection
Having the form of a fiber or fibers; resembling a fiber.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Fibrilla
noun · 78% connection
A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
FibrillAe
pl. · 78% connection
of Fibrilla
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Flagellum
verb · 78% connection
A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Flax
noun · 78% connection
A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flow…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Ita palm
unknown · 78% connection
A magnificent species of palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and ma…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Ixtli
noun · 78% connection
A Mexican name for a variety of Agave rigida, which furnishes a strong coarse fiber; also, the fiber itself, which is called also pita…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Jute
noun · 78% connection
The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorus olitorius, and C. capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Knot
noun · 78% connection
A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a har…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Lenticel
noun · 78% connection
One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Loop
noun · 78% connection
A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hook…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Loris
noun · 78% connection
Any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus Stenops. They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
Pita
noun · 78% connection
A fiber obtained from the Agave Americana and other related species, -- used for making cordage and paper. Called also pita fiber, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, fiber, branch, slender, thread.
