filamentous

Fertilization in mammals begins when a sperm attaches to the egg coat, a filamentous extracellular envelope that sperm must penetrate in order to fuse with the egg.

Her research aims to use injected filamentous hydrogel material to regrow heart tissue damaged after a heart attack.

To maintain this protection, the study noted that segmented filamentous bacteria required immune cells in the lungs called basally resident alveolar macrophages.

Their results revise the understanding of the relationships of a group of filamentous algal land colonizers much older than land plants.

Moss balls, or "marimo" in Japanese, are popular pet water plants that are not a moss but a special growth form of filamentous algae.