threadlike

[ UK /θɹˈɛdla‍ɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. thin in diameter; resembling a thread
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How To Use threadlike In A Sentence

  • Threadlike cilia-bearing tentacles probe for food, such as forams, detritus, and even the occasional buried bivalve, and bring it to the mouth where a large radula grinds it up.
  • It was remarkably unprepossessing - a translucent box-shaped blob, six or eight inches high, with threadlike tentacles trailing off beneath it.
  • Also, a mat of threadlike filamentous algae floating on the surface greatly increases the rate of water loss through evaporation.
  • Yet minced and sautéed and gingered, then rolled into flaky phyllo pastry with threadlike rice noodles, these variety meats make a surprisingly gentle and appealing appetizer called a Moroccan Delicacy Pie.
  • The basidia are formed on the end of threadlike branched bodies which grow at the apex, and are called hyphæ. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • Some were pale threadlike lines, others were liverish welts that looked tender. DOLL'S EYES
  • The eggs then mature into a threadlike state called microfilariae, before developing into larvae, which can then be picked up and handed on to other people when a black fly takes a blood meal. ANC Daily News Briefing
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