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A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
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Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.
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Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.
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Like a filament.
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A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
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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.
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Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.
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A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
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A genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion; also, an individual of this genus.
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Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.
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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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To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
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A twisted filament; a thread.
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The gill of a crustacean in which the branchial filaments are slender and cylindrical, as in the crawfishes.
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Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.
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The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
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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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A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.
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Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments.
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To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.
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