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fibrilliform

fibrilliform adjective: having the appearance of a thin fibre or group of fibres; fibrous.

Adjective

fibrilliform (comparative more fibrilliform, superlative most fibrilliform)

  1. Having the appearance of a thin fibre or group of fibres; fibrous.
    • Homoeoneuria burrows in loose sand and feeds on material caught in the hairs on the legs. Lachlania has both a platelike and a fibrilliform portion to the gills (Fig. 63B) while Homoeoneuria lacks the latter (Fig. 63C).1979, Dennis M. Lehmkuhl, How to Know the Aquatic Insects (The Pictured Key Nature Series), Dubuque, I.A.: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, →ISBN, page 53, column 1

Forms of fibrilliform

comparativemore fibrilliform
superlativemost fibrilliform

Origin of fibrilliform

From Latin fibrilla (“a fine fibre or filament”) + -iform.

Questions about fibrilliform

What does fibrilliform mean?
Fibrilliform means having the appearance of a thin fibre or group of fibres; fibrous.
What part of speech is fibrilliform?
Fibrilliform is an adjective.

Words near fibrilliform in the dictionary

  1. fibrillative
  2. fibrillatory
  3. fibrilled
  4. fibrilliary
  5. fibrilliferous
  6. fibrilliform
  7. fibrillin
  8. fibrillinogenesis
  9. fibrillinopathies
  10. fibrillinopathy
  11. fibrillins

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