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Filament
01
a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
02
a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
filaments
03
a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
04
the stalk of a stamen
Lexical Tree
filamentlike
filamentous
filament
