filament
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1. a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current (noun.artifact)
hypernym | : | conducting wire, wire, |
definition | : | a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance (noun.artifact) |
2. a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) (noun.body)
hyponym | : | hair, pilus, |
definition | : | any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal (noun.body) |
3. the stalk of a stamen (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | stalk, stem, |
definition | : | a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ (noun.plant) |
4. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber (noun.substance)
hypernym | : | fiber, fibre, |
definition | : | a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn (noun.substance) |
hyponym | : | barb, |
definition | : | one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather (noun.animal) |
hyponym | : | cobweb, gossamer, |
definition | : | filaments from a web that was spun by a spider (noun.artifact) |
hyponym | : | chromatid, |
definition | : | one of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis (noun.body) |
hyponym | : | rhizoid, |
definition | : | any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | hypha, |
definition | : | any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | paraphysis, |
definition | : | a sterile simple or branched filament or hair borne among sporangia; may be pointed or clubbed (noun.plant) |
5. a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) (noun.body)
derivation | : | filar, |
definition | : | related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope) (adj.pert) |
6. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber (noun.substance)
7. a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) (noun.body)
derivation | : | filar, |
definition | : | related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope) (adj.pert) |
8. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber (noun.substance)
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