threadlike

Adjective

(comparative more threadlike, superlative most threadlike)

Having the form of a thread.
Resembling a thread in length or thinness.

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In the course of division two bodies appear in the cytoplasm, and behave as centrosomes during the karyokinesis; they gradually become threadlike and coil round each daughter nucleus.
The filament is usually, as its name imports, filiform or threadlike, and cylindrical, or slightly tapering towards its summit.

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