filipendulous
English edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From Latin filum ("thread") + pendulus ("hanging").
Adjective edit
filipendulous (comparative more filipendulous, superlative most filipendulous)
- Hanging by a thread, or threadlike objects
- filipendulous constructions
- filipendulous root
- filipendulous outgrowths
- filipendulous stems
Translations edit
suspended by a thread
References edit
- “filipendulous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.