filamentous

Speech parts

1. filamentous - Adjective

2. filamentous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

thready threadlike filiform filamentlike thin sharp rope sticky viscous fibrous capillary crisp bearded hairy bushy
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Antonyms

large strong heavy silken round thin
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Phrases with the word

filamentous bacteria filamentous saury fungal filamentous structure solitary filamentous

Examples

An altogether different phage type, the filamentous phages, make the host cell continually secrete new virus particles. Source: Internet

Colonization of the small intestine also requires the toxin coregulated pilus (TCP), a thin, flexible, filamentous appendage on the surface of bacterial cells. Source: Internet

Basidiomycota are filamentous fungi composed of hyphae (except for yeasts), and reproduce sexually via the formation of specialized club-shaped end cells called basidia that normally bear external meiospores (usually four). Source: Internet

The integrins thus serve to link two networks across the plasma membrane: the extracellular ECM and the intracellular actin filamentous system. Source: Internet

Other morphologies have also been described: spindle shaped, rod shaped, filamentous, icosahedral and spherical. Source: Internet

Each stereocilium inserts as a rootlet into a dense filamentous actin mesh known as the cuticular plate. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

filamentlike filamentoid filamentose filamentous bacteria filamentous saury filamentously