a. [f. L. fīl-um thread + -(I)FEROUS.] Bearing or provided with thread-like parts.
1841–71. T. R. Jones, Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4), 61. The presence of a prehensile apparatus of filiferous capsules.
1846. Dana, Zooph. (1848), 513. Cells … filiferous within.
