| NOUN | substance | fibril, filament, strand | a very slender natural or synthetic fiber |
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| Meaning | A very slender natural or synthetic fiber. | |
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| Synonyms | filament, strand | |
| Narrower | barb | One of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather |
| chromatid | One of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis | |
| cobweb, gossamer | filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | |
| hypha | Any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus | |
| myofibril, myofibrilla, sarcostyle | One of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | |
| paraphysis | A sterile simple or branched filament or hair borne among sporangia | |
| rhizoid | Any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc | |
| Broader | fiber, fibre | A slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn |
| Spanish | filamento | |
| Catalan | fibril·la, fibril, filament | |
| Adjectives | fibrillose | covered with fibrils more or less evenly disposed |
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