filiferous
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin filum (“a thread”) + -ferous.
Adjective edit
filiferous (not comparable)
- Producing or constituting threads.
- 1845, William Benjamin Carpenter, Zoology: being a systematic account of the general structure, habits, instincts and uses of the principal families of the animal kingdom:
- Like the Polypes , they capture their prey by the agency of tentacles ; and their integuments are furnished with a multitude of filiferous capsules , the stinging power of which in many cases is very great.
References edit
“filiferous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.