fibril
English Thesaurus
1. a very slender natural or synthetic fiber (noun.substance)
| hypernym | : | fiber, fibre, |
| definition | : | a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn (noun.substance) |
| hyponym | : | barb, |
| definition | : | one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cobweb, gossamer, |
| definition | : | filaments from a web that was spun by a spider (noun.artifact) |
| hyponym | : | chromatid, |
| definition | : | one of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis (noun.body) |
| hyponym | : | rhizoid, |
| definition | : | any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | hypha, |
| definition | : | any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | paraphysis, |
| definition | : | a sterile simple or branched filament or hair borne among sporangia; may be pointed or clubbed (noun.plant) |
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