Wordfinder

Filiform definition

fĭlə-fôrm, fīlə-
Having the form of or resembling a thread or filament.
adjective
0
0
Having the form of a thread or filament.
adjective
0
0
Having the form of or resembling a thread or filament.
adjective
0
0
Shaped like or resembling a thread or filament; filamentous.
adjective
0
0
Having all component parts or segments cylindrical and more or less uniform in size.

Tiger beetles have filiform antennae.

adjective
0
0
Advertisement

Origin of filiform

  • Latin fīlum thread gwhī- in Indo-European roots –form

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin filum (“thread”) + -form

    From Wiktionary

Filiform Sentence Examples

  • Amphicarpum, native in the southeastern United States, has fertile cleistogamous spikelets on filiform runners at the base of the culm, those on the terminal panicle are sterile.

  • Lankester (5) has shown (and his views have been accepted by Professors Korschelt and Heider in their treatise on Embryology) that the limb of the lowest Crustacea, such as Apus, consists of a corm or axis which may be jointed, and gives rise to outgrowths, either leaf-like or filiform, on its inner and outer margins (endites and exites).

More sentences

Words near filiform in the Dictionary