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filiferous

filiferous adjective: producing or constituting threads.

Adjective

filiferous (not comparable)

  1. Producing or constituting threads.
    • Like the Polypes , they capture their prey by the agency of tentacles ; and their integuments are furnished with a multitude of filiferous capsules , the stinging power of which in many cases is very great.1845, William Benjamin Carpenter, Zoology: being a systematic account of the general structure, habits, instincts and uses of the principal families of the animal kingdom

Origin of filiferous

From Latin filum (“a thread”) + -ferous.

Words that rhyme with filiferous

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Questions about filiferous

What does filiferous mean?
Filiferous means producing or constituting threads.
What part of speech is filiferous?
Filiferous is an adjective.

Words near filiferous in the dictionary

  1. filicology
  2. filiety
  3. filiferan
  4. filiferans
  5. filiferin
  6. filiferous
  7. filiform
  8. filiformed
  9. filiformic
  10. filiformly
  11. filigrain

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