Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word FILAMENTOUS

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Definitions of FILAMENTOUS

1. Having the form of threads or filaments; filamented.

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Examples of Using FILAMENTOUS in a Sentence

• Lindenmayer worked with yeast and filamentous fungi and studied the growth patterns of various types of algae, such as the blue/green bacteria Anabaena catenula.
• Basidiomycota are filamentous fungi composed of hyphae (except for basidiomycota-yeast) and reproduce sexually via the formation of specialized club-shaped end cells called basidia that normally bear external meiospores (usually four).
• The word "egret" comes from the French word aigrette that means both "silver heron" and "brush", referring to the long, filamentous feathers that seem to cascade down an egret's back during the breeding season (also called "egrets").
• It is a primary component of cell walls in fungi (especially filamentous and mushroom-forming fungi), the exoskeletons of arthropods such as crustaceans and insects, the radulae, cephalopod beaks and gladii of molluscs and in some nematodes and diatoms.
• Lichenology is the branch of mycology that studies the lichens, symbiotic organisms made up of an intimate symbiotic association of a microscopic alga (or a cyanobacterium) with a filamentous fungus.
• Virions are enveloped and can be spherical or pleomorphic and capable of producing filamentous virions.
• The name Filoviridae is derived from the Latin noun filum (alluding to the filamentous morphology of filovirions) and the taxonomic suffix -viridae (which denotes a virus family).
• Certain, usually filamentous, algae have the terminal cell produced into an elongate hair-like structure called a trichome.
• The virus particle (also called the virion) is 80–120 nanometers in diameter and elliptical or filamentous in shape.
• Arthrospira species are free-floating, filamentous cyanobacteria characterized by cylindrical, multicellular trichomes in an open left-handed helix.
• The head domain binds the filamentous actin, and uses ATP hydrolysis to generate force and to "walk" along the filament towards the barbed (+) end (with the exception of myosin VI, which moves towards the pointed (-) end).
• The influenzavirus virion is pleomorphic; the viral envelope can occur in spherical and filamentous forms.
• The individual bacteria tend to form filamentous colonies enclosed in sheaths, which are known as trichomes.
• Cryptococcus is a genus of fungi in the family Cryptococcaceae that includes both yeasts and filamentous species.
• Members of this family are also characterized by their filamentous, cross-banded, noncontractile tails, usually with short terminal and subterminal fibers.
• They are formed during vegetative reproduction in unicellular, filamentous cyanobacteria, and some may contain heterocysts and akinetes.
• The lake gained widespread recognition in December 2002 when a research team, led by the University of Illinois at Chicago's Peter Doran, announced the discovery of 2,800‑year‑old halophile microbes (primarily filamentous cyanobacteria) preserved in ice layer core samples drilled in 1996.
• Three barbels occur on the chin and four additional filamentous barbels at the upper jaw, which is neither hooked nor notched.
• Breeding birds may have a reddish or black bill, greenish yellow gape skin, loose filamentous plumes on their breast and back, and dull yellow or pink on their upper legs (regional variations).
• The WICGR has since sequenced the genomes of Ciona savignyi (sea squirt), the pufferfish, the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa, and multiple relatives of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, one of the most studied yeasts.
• Description : mantle covered with firm conical tubercles; the larger tubercles have terminal papillae with retractable filamentous branches; difficult to find, mostly hidden under the leaves of green alga Caulerpa.
• Filamentous anoxygenic phototroph, a descriptive term for the Chloroflexia class of photosynthetic bacteria.
• Fibrous proteins are made up of elongated or fibrous polypeptide chains which form filamentous and sheet-like structures.
• Heterocysts or heterocytes are specialized nitrogen-fixing cells formed during nitrogen starvation by some filamentous cyanobacteria, such as Nostoc, Cylindrospermum, and Anabaena.
• Ebolavirus is a filamentous, enveloped virus within the order Mononegavirales which also contains rabies and measles viruses.

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