Filiform

Word FILIFORM
Character 8
Hyphenation fil i form
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Filiform"

What do we mean by filiform?

Having the form of or resembling a thread or filament. adjective

Like a filum in form; thready; filamentous; filaceous.

Pertaining to or having the characters of the Filiformia.

In surgery, a very slender hair-like bougie. noun

Having the shape of a thread or filament; See Illust. of antennæ. adjective

Shaped like or resembling a thread or filament; filamentous. adjective

Having all component parts or segments cylindrical and more or less uniform in size. adjective

Thin in diameter; resembling a thread adjective

Shaped like or resembling a thread or filament; filamentous.

Having all component parts or segments cylindrical and more or less uniform in size.

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The word "filiform" in example sentences

There are at least five known types of warts that are caused by a number of HPV strains: common warts (often found on the hands and scalp); filiform warts (common in those who are overweight and often appear on the face and armpits); periungual warts (usually appearing around the fingernails); flat warts (smaller than the common warts and appear in clusters on the hands and legs); and plantar warts. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Amongst the bushes here, a HAKEA, with simple filiform mucronulate leaves without flower, occurred, loaded with oblong hard galls resembling dry plums. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Constantine, I discovered on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of a patient suffering from malaria, filiform elements resembling flagellae which were moving very rapidly, displacing the neighbouring red cells. ❋ Unknown (1967)

Stems are slender, sometimes even filiform, erect, or ascending, simple or branched, varying in length from 9 inches to 3 feet. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The plant consists of prostrate stems and stolons, filiform and wiry. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The inflorescence is a spike-like panicle, with very short filiform inarticulate branches and rachises. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _leaf-blade_ is filiform, linear-lanceolate, acutely pointed, glabrous or nearly so, margins distantly ciliate, 1 to 2 inches long by ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

These, together with the few flowers that linger, backed up, as they are, with a dense bed of foliage, interlaced with its numerous filiform stems, present this subject in its most interesting and, perhaps, its prettiest form. ❋ John Wood (N/A)

The _inflorescence_ is a diffuse panicle 4 to 14 inches long with filiform, divaricate, scaberulous, angled branches; the main _rachis_ is angular, smooth below and scaberulous above; peduncle is cylindric, striate, 2 to 12 inches long. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _leaf-blades_ are usually flat, glabrous, strongly nerved, with filiform tips, 3 to 10 inches by 1/25 to 1/16 inch. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

It differs from _G. nutans_ in being an annual and in having filiform leaves, bicuspidate third glume which is scabrid all over the back and a fourth glume distinctly tricuspidate at the apex. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _spikelets_ are 1/16 inch long, oblong-lanceolate, pale, crowded, glabrous, shortly pedicelled on thinly scaberulous filiform short branches. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _leaf-blade_ is filiform, shorter or longer than the stem, erect or curved, coriaceous with the margins sparsely ciliate with long strict hairs, 1/2 to 1 inch long. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _leaf-blade_ is linear, narrow, sometimes even filiform, acuminate slightly cordate at the base, scabrid throughout with a few scattered long bulbous-based hairs near the base to a distance of less than 1/2 inch about it and varies from 2 to 4 inches in length. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _panicle_ is erect, narrow, contracted, with branches in pseudo-whorls and varying in length from 6 to 18 inches, branches are slender, filiform, two or more arising from the same level, 1 to 3 inches long. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

A living, organized ferment, of the vibrionic type, filiform, with tortuous motions, and often of immense length, forms spontaneously by the development of some germs derived in some way from the inevitable particles of dust floating in the air or resting on the surface of the vessels or material which we employ. ❋ Various (N/A)

The _inflorescence_ is a lax, narrow, subsecund panicle, varying in length from 3 to 12 inches, and with a slender glabrous peduncle; the main rachis is filiform and glabrous; branches are either solitary or binate, unequal; branched either from the middle or the base; _pedicels_ are short and capillary. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Stems stout; leaves not filiform; tip of glume III entire 1. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

The _panicle_ is oblong to pyramidal, flaccid, open or contracted erect or inclined, 2 to 8 inches; rachis is hairy or glabrous; branches are very fine filiform or capillary, more or less whorled, lower six inches long; branchlets are still finer and capillary. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

Stems slender, leaves filiform; tip of glume III toothed 2. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

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