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A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).
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A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm.
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Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments.
v. i.
To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality.
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Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.
v. t.
To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
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A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.
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Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.
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A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
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The gill of a crustacean in which the branchial filaments are slender and cylindrical, as in the crawfishes.
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Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.
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Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.
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Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.
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Capable of turning; freely movable; as, a versatile anther, which is fixed at one point to the filament, and hence is very easily turned around; a versatile toe of a bird.
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A genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion; also, an individual of this genus.
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Like a filament.
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Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.
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A twisted filament; a thread.
v. t.
To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.
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The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
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