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What does filiform mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word filiform? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Shaped like or resembling a thread or filament; filamentous.
  2. Having all component parts or segments cylindrical and more or less uniform in size.
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Antennae are multisegmented in neuropterans and filiform in Megaloptera and Raphidiodea.
The edges of the pyramids are formed by filiform bars similar to those which compose the original lattice-work of the Sagosphrida.
The filiform papill become elongated to several times their normal length, and feel and look like so many hairs on the tongue.
H are seen the long filiform external gills which now project out from all the visceral clefts, including the spiracle.
The filiform papillae are long and stained by accumulated debris.
Plants on this latter medium were very short with filiform leaves.

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