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filamentose

filamentose adjective: being hair- or thread-like.

Adjective

filamentose (comparative more filamentose, superlative most filamentose)

  1. Being hair- or thread-like.
  2. Having the form of a thread, as in the thread in clothes.

Forms of filamentose

comparativemore filamentose
superlativemost filamentose

Questions about filamentose

What does filamentose mean?
Filamentose means being hair- or thread-like.
What part of speech is filamentose?
Filamentose is an adjective.

Words near filamentose in the dictionary

  1. filamentiferous
  2. filamenting
  3. filamentless
  4. filamentlike
  5. filamentoid
  6. filamentose
  7. filamentous
  8. filamentously
  9. filamentousness
  10. filaments
  11. filaments of galaxies

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