filamentous

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

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2024

Fungi establish deeply symbiotic relationships with trees and other plants through intricate underground networks of thread-like filamentous structures, which improve access to water and nutrients for the plants in exchange for carbohydrates.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2021

Dangling from the bottom, like the tentacles of a jellyfish, was a mass of filamentous roots.

From Golf Digest • May 8, 2020

Everyone knows that the seeds, under silky, filamentous parachutes, ride the breeze far and wide.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2018

Genes reside on chromosomes—long, filamentous structures buried within cells that contain tens of thousands of genes linked together in chains.*

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee