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Filamentous

adjective
1.
Thin in diameter; resembling a thread.  Synonyms: filamentlike, filiform, threadlike, thready.





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... barbs of the feathers in various widely-distinct birds are filamentous or plumose, as with some herons, ibises, birds of paradise, and Gallinaceae. In other cases the barbs disappear, leaving the shafts bare from end to end; and these in the tail of the Paradisea apoda ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin


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