filamentous.

Made up of, or shaped like, very thin threads.

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Words that belong together

• filamentous growth
• filamentous strands

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Filamentous growth spread across the damp surface of the sample.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: uncommon.