Word Meanings - FILAMENTOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FILAMENTOUS)

• Fimbriated
• Fringed
• tasselled
• filamentous

Related words: (words related to FILAMENTOUS)

• FILAMENTOUS
  Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
• FRINGY
  Aborned with fringes. Shak.
• FRINGENT
  Encircling like a fringe; bordering. "The fringent air." Emerson.
• FRINGILLACEOUS
  Fringilline.
• FRINGE TREE
  A small oleaceous tree , of the southern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.
• FIMBRIATE
  Having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube.
• FRINGED
  Furnished with a fringe. Fringed lear , a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.
• FRINGILLINE
  Pertaining to the family Fringillidæ; characteristic of finches; sparrowlike.
• FRINGILLA
  A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. It formerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.
• FRINGELESS
  Having no fringe.
• FRINGE
  One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe. (more info) 1. An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of
• FIMBRIATED
  Having a very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp. of an ordinary or subordinary. (more info) 1. Having a fringed border; fimbriate.
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• UNDERFRINGE
  A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something. Broad-faced, with underfringe of russet beard. Tennyson.
• INFRINGE
  1. To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract. If the first that did the edict infringe, Had answered for his deed. Shak. The peace . . . was infringed by Appius Claudius. Golding. 2. To
• BEFRINGE
  To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe. Fuller.
• REFRINGENCY
  The power possessed by a substance to refract a ray; as, different substances have different refringencies. Nichol.
• INFRINGEMENT
  1. The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution. The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon.
• REFRINGENT
  Pertaining to, or possessing, refringency; refractive; refracting; as, a refringent prism of spar. Nichol.
• VORTEX FRINGE
  The region immediately surrounding a disk moving flatwise through air; -- so called because the air has a cyclic motion as in vortex ring.
• UNINFRINGIBLE
  That may not be infringed; as, an uninfringible monopoly.