"Filament" is a word in ENGLISH

Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae …

A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to …

The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without …

Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of …

One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the …

A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the …

Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of …

Terminating in a threadlike process.

A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.

A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark.

The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalcule-like particle, usually provided with …

A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, …

A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.

Any fern of the genus Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on …

A nematode worm (Trichocephalus dispar) often found parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened posteriorly, but is very …