Meanings
adjectivefiliferous (not comparable)
- not comparableProducing or constituting threads.
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.
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
Origin
- Latinfilum“a thread”
- Englishfiliferous
From Latin filum (“a thread”) + -ferous.
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Rhymes with filiferous
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