Filiform: thread-like: slender and of equal diameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Gita glimpsed thread-like scars trailing down his neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Chiffonade the collard greens so that appear thread-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sergio Mendes & Café Brasil - A Brazilian Evening at the Hollywood Bowl] Reference

Majority of molds are composed of many thread-like filaments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

The goal is to end up with thread-like strands of cooked egg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perdue Chicken Cookbook] Reference

It stood up, a thread-like spike, in the far distance ahead of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs] Reference

Nematodes are tiny, colorless, thread-like roundworms 0. 2-0.4 mm long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

Filicornia: insects with thread-like antennae; e.g. in Coleopteran, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Brown when dry, dehiscing to release small seeds with thread-like hairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Nectaries: honey-tubes, cornicles, siphuncles; q.v. Nematid: thread-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Wash the heart well and trim off the fat, large veins and thread-like cords.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Canadian Seal Hunting] Reference

The end of a white thread-like Guinea worm can be seen poking out of the sore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 32] Reference

The thread-like branches permeate the earth or whatever the mushroom grows upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

Filate: Diptera; antennae that are simple, without lateral hair or dilation: thread-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

A thread-like element, usually made of carbon and employed in the exhausted electric bulb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference

Just back of the wings is a pair of balancers, short thread-like processes knobbed at the end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference

It attaches itself to the lining of the womb by little thread-like filaments which it projects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herself Talks with Women Concerning Themselves] Reference

Elementary threads of a fungus, cylindrical, thread-like bodies, developing by growth at the apex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

The reptile's black, thread-like tongue began to play in and out of its mouth with great rapidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Phantom] Reference

Some days, when the air would be very clear, we could see the land, a thread-like line to the west.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]

Fruit in a one-sided spike in two ranks; plants very small; sterile fronds thread-like and tortuous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

The nerves also undergo division until they terminate as fine thread-like structures in all parts of the body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference

A developed neuron consists of a cell body with numerous prolongations in the form of white, thread-like fibres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference

Minute, thread-like projections upon the internal surface of the small intestine, giving it a velvety appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

Fig. 17 shows a group of these Oscillariae, and the similarity of this to some of the thread-like bacteria is decided.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Germ Life] Reference

It is the vegetative part of the fungus, and is composed of minute, cylindrical, thread-like branching bodies called hyphæ.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference

That is how the Daisy spreads; it throws out these thread-like shoots from the root, and from these grow another root and plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildflowers of the Farm] Reference

If we could see the roots we should find them very thread-like or fibrous, like those of other flowers we have been looking at to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildflowers of the Farm] Reference

Algae can be unicellular and microscopic or colonial forming plate-like colonies, thread-like filaments, net-like tubes, or hollow balls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phytoplankton] Reference