filamentous

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NETs are produced through a specialised form of innate immune response known as NETosis, whereby neutrophils expel their DNA to form filamentous structures embedded with cytotoxic enzymes capable of rapidly trapping and neutralizing pathogens.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2025

Dangling from the bottom, like the tentacles of a jellyfish, was a mass of filamentous roots.

From Golf Digest • May 8, 2020

Everyone knows that the seeds, under silky, filamentous parachutes, ride the breeze far and wide.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2018

The gills of crustaceans are filamentous structures that exchange gases with the surrounding water.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Genes reside on chromosomes—long, filamentous structures buried within cells that contain tens of thousands of genes linked together in chains.*

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee