filipendulous

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From Latin filum ("thread") + pendulus ("hanging").

Adjective

filipendulous (comparative more filipendulous, superlative most filipendulous)

1. Hanging by a thread, or threadlike objects

   filipendulous constructions

   filipendulous root

   filipendulous outgrowths

   filipendulous stems

Translations

suspended by a thread

References

• “filipendulous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.