filiferous
English
Etymology
From Latin filum (“a thread”) + -ferous.
Adjective
filiferous (not comparable)
- Producing threads.
- 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
- 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
References
filiferous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913