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Micrococcus :: Micrococcus (n.) A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus..

Harl :: Harl (n.) A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp..

Monadelphous :: Monadelphous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Monadelphia; having the stamens united in one body by the filaments.

Capillaceous :: Capillaceous (a.) Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.

Elater :: Elater (n.) An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts..

Rhizine :: Rhizine (n.) A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.

Byssus :: Byssus (n.) A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc..

Filament :: Filament (n.) A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther..

Capillament :: Capillament (n.) A filament.

Bacterium :: Bacterium (n.) A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus

Floss :: Floss (n.) Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering..

Monadiform :: Monadiform (a.) Having the form of a monad; resembling a monad in having one or more filaments of vibratile protoplasm; as, monadiform young..

Twire :: Twire (n.) A twisted filament; a thread.

String :: String (n.) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein..

Phacellus :: Phacellus (n.) One of the filaments on the inner surface of the gastric cavity of certain jellyfishes.

Nemathecium :: Nemathecium (n.) A peculiar kind of fructification on certain red algae, consisting of an external mass of filaments at length separating into tetraspores..

Triadelphous :: Triadelphous (a.) Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.

Throw :: Throw (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..

Water Flannel :: Water flannel () A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).

Thread :: Thread (n.) 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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