NOUN | body | filum, filament | a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) |
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Meaning | A threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells). | |
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Synonym | filament | |
Narrower | hair, pilus | Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal |
Broader | structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure | A particular complex anatomical part of a living thing |
Spanish | filamento, filum | |
Catalan | filament, filum | |
Adjectives | filar | related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope) |
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