Etymology

filiferous

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Today it means: Producing or constituting threads. Full definition →

Latin filum
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  1. Latin · derived fromfilum“a thread”
  2. English todayfiliferous

From Latin filum (“a thread”) + -ferous.

Words from the same roots

Latinfilum all →

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