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A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.

Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.

Like a filament.

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

A vortex tube of infinitesimal cross section.

Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray.

ganic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts.

vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algæ, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fiss…

Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous algæ.

A tuft of long, tough filaments which are formed in a groove of the foot, and issue from between the valves of certain bivalve mollusks, as the Pinna and Mytilus, by which they attach themselves to rocks, etc.

Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.

A filament. [R.]

A filament of a stamen. [Obs.]

A filamentous fresh-water alga (Conferva rivularis of Linnaeus, Rhizoclonium rivulare of Kutzing).

A Linnæan class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.

or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens).

Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather. Shak. No feather, or dowle of a feather. De Quincey.

The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.