Filiform: alternatives and connections

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…

A cuplike division of the pelvis of the kidney, which surrounds one or more of the renal papillae.

Surrounded by a ridge or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue.

Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top. [See Illust. of Antennae.]

Having club-shaped antennae. See Antennae

A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.

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.

Having teeth or toothlike points. See Illust. of Antennae.

an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style"

A genus of nudibranch mollusks having clusters of branchial papillae along the back. See Ceratobranchia.

Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennae.

The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom.

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…

an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style"

Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillae of the tongue.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillae; bearing, or covered with, papillae; papillose.

To cover with papillae; to take the form of a papilla, or of papillae.

A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillae of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.