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HAIR |
Filament |
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FIBER |
Slender filament |
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FIBRE |
Slender filament |
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CAPILLAMENT |
A filament. |
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FILAMETOID |
Like a filament. |
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THREAD |
Fine strand or filament |
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CHIVE |
A filament of a stamen. |
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TWIRE |
A twisted filament; a thread. |
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DOWLE |
Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather. |
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FILAMENTARY |
Having the character of, or formed by, a filament. |
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FLOCCUS |
A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of
certain fungi. |
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ELATER |
An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in
some liverworts. |
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POSTTICOUS |
Situated on the outer side of a filament; -- said of an
extrorse anther. |
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INNATE |
Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an
innate anther. |
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POLLEN |
The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers.
See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. |
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RHIZINE |
A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of
mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid. |
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SPORIDIUM |
A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore,
in certain kinds of minute fungi. |
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PSEUDOPOD |
Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process
projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant
call. |
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STAMEN |
The male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing the
pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament. |
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EXTRORSE |
Facing outwards, or away from the axis of growth; -- said
esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament. |
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ROPE |
To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a
filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality. |
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PARAPHYSIS |
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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FILIFORM |
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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INCUMBENT |
Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the
inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies
against the back of one of them. |
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VERSATILE |
Capable of turning; freely movable; as, a versatile
anther, which is fixed at one point to the filament, and hence is very
easily turned around; a versatile toe of a bird. |