FILUM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: fila

Meaning:

A threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)

Synonyms:

filament; filum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("filum" is a kind of...):

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "filum"):

hair; pilus (any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal)

Derivation:

filar (related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope))