Meanings
adjectivefibrilliform (comparative more fibrilliform, superlative most fibrilliform)
comparative more fibrilliform · superlative most fibrilliform
- Having the appearance of a thin fibre or group of fibres; fibrous.
Homoeoneuria burrows in loose sand and feeds on material caught in the hairs on the legs. Lachlania has both a platelike and a fibrilliform portion to the gills (Fig. 63B) while Homoeoneuria lacks the latter (Fig. 63C).
1979, Dennis M. Lehmkuhl, How to Know the Aquatic Insects (The Pictured Key Nature Series), Dubuque, I.A.: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, →ISBN, page 53, column 1
Origin
From Latin fibrilla (“a fine fibre or filament”) + -iform.
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