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Meanings of threadlike in English

Thin in diameter; resembling a thread.

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Examples for "filamentous"
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Certain fungal members of this group are required to initiate filamentous growth.
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It also caused the change in filamentous actin distribution in the cells.
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The role filamentous virions play in the virus life cycle remains enigmatic.
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It is caused by soil-borne filamentous bacteria belonging to the genus Streptomyces.
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However, the molecular mechanisms underlying alpha-synuclein aggregation into such filamentous inclusions remain unknown.
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His pulse felt thready, at least it had a few seconds ago.
The accidental demon slayer
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Maybe the second, though. The big man's pulse was weak and thready.
Midnight hero
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I had a good pulse for awhile there, but it's gone thready again.
End of Watch
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It couldn't reach her, but Ivy twitched and let out a thready whimper.
Small favor
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Who are you? My voice was changing again, high and thready.
Coyote dreams
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The molecular mechanisms of filiform tongue papillae development however are not fully understood.
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Patients received filiform fire needle therapy once every two weeks for 12 consecutive weeks.
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In such cases the smallest size of the author's filiform bougies (Fig.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy / A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy a...
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Excellent repigmentation is demonstrated after several filiform fire needle sessions in the vitiligo lesions.
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Antennæ longer than the head and thorax, filiform, four-jointed.
Our Common Insects / A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fie...
Usage of threadlike in English
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The antennae were heliotrope, fine, threadlike, and closely pressed to the head.
Moths of the Limberlost: A Book About Limberlost Cabin
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It was an infinitely fine, threadlike projection from the surface of the planet.
Sand Doom
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Caradoc's face went white, leaving threadlike purple veins showing on nose and cheeks.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock
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More nervous than sanguine, Cristophe's bodily appearance was thin and threadlike, but wiry.
Catherine De Medici
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Her high-arched, threadlike brows were ruffled into a delicious frown.
The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
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It was a very dry voice; threadlike, but determined.
Up the Hill and Over
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Deveining a prawn or shrimp removes the gray, threadlike intestinal track running along its back.
The everything chinese cookbook: from wonton soup to sweet and s...
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But the silk was thin, threadlike and slightly discolored.
The Sorceress
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So genes had to be carried on chromosomes-thethreadlike structures identified by Flemming three decades earlier.
The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer
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The mycelium, the threadlike part of a fungus that often grows underground, is a favorite food.
The sound of a wild snail eating
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He saw Lady Galloway, slim and threadlike, with silver hair and a face sensitive and superior.
The Innocence of Father Brown
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I struck at this, and caught something threadlike.
The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
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Nothing else stirred; in the crisp still air the evening smoke of chimneys rose threadlike and vanished.
Sally Dows
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Yes, this little threadlike creature belongs to the same order as the big flat giant water bug.
The Insect Folk
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The spinnerets of the females were working furiously now, spraying threadlike ova and pheronomes into the air.
Jem
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The sacred gold is heated to a threadlike consistency so it can be stitched into the skin.'
Blood Rights
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