filum

English Thesaurus

1. a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) (noun.body)

hypernym	:	anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure,
definition	:	a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing (noun.body)

hyponym	:	hair, pilus,
definition	:	any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal (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)

derivation	:	filar,
definition	:	related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope) (adj.pert)