Filament: alternatives and connections

Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.

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The network spread by a spider to catch its prey.

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A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furze o…

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The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of…

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A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.

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A rootlike appendage.

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Alt. of Fibre

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One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.

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The stem or main axis of a plant; as, a stalk of wheat, rye, or oats; the stalks of maize or hemp.

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Alt. of Steem

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The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a…

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Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillae of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennAe.

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Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillae of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennAe.

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A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partiall…

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A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.

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One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.

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