filamentous

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To maintain this protection, the study noted that segmented filamentous bacteria required immune cells in the lungs called basally resident alveolar macrophages.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2024

Head and tail viruses infect bacteria and have a head that is similar to icosahedral viruses and a tail shape like filamentous viruses.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

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

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