filamentous
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The study found that in segmented filamentous bacteria-negative mice, basally resident alveolar macrophages were quickly depleted as respiratory virus infection progressed.
From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2024
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
Beneath the arachnoid is a thin, filamentous mesh called the arachnoid trabeculae, which looks like a spider web, giving this layer its name.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
