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filamentous

filamentous adjective: thin and elongated; wirelike.

Adjective

filamentous (comparative more filamentous, superlative most filamentous)

  1. Thin and elongated; wirelike.
  2. Having the form of threads or filaments.
  3. Having filaments; filamented; fimbriate.

filamentous meaning in Tamil and Bengali

filamentous in Tamil

இழை வடுவமுடைய, இழை வடுவமுடையவை

filamentous in Bengali

সরু এবং দীর্ঘায়িত, তারের মতো, সুতা, তন্তুর আকৃতি বিশিষ্ট, তন্তু বিশিষ্ট, সূত্রল

Forms of filamentous

comparativemore filamentous
superlativemost filamentous

Origin of filamentous

From filament + -ous.

Words formed from filamentous

Questions about filamentous

What does filamentous mean?
Filamentous means thin and elongated; wirelike.
What is filamentous in Tamil?
Filamentous in Tamil is இழை வடுவமுடைய, இழை வடுவமுடையவை. See Filamentous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is filamentous?
Filamentous is an adjective.

Words near filamentous in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filamentous (page history and authors); filamentous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); filamentous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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