thread-like

English

Adjective

thread-like (comparative more thread-like, superlative most thread-like)

  1. Alternative form of threadlike.
    • 1897, Karl Freiherr von Tubeuf, Diseases of Plants Induced by Cryptogamic Parasites, Introduction to the Study of Pathogenic Fungi, Slime-Fungi, Bacteria, & Algae, page 10:
      The Erysipheae are typical epiphytes, which weave a mycelium over the surface of plants they attack; the mycelium retains its hold by adhesion-discs or appressoria, and from certain parts of these a fine thread-like process is given off, which, after piercing the epidermal wall of the host, swells inside to a simple or branched sac, the haustorium.
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