filaceous
English
Etymology
Latin filum (“thread”) + -aceous.
Adjective
filaceous (comparative more filaceous, superlative most filaceous)
- Composed of threads.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for filaceous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)