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Webster 1913 Edition

(?; 135)

Adj.

[L.

filum

a thread +

pendulus

hanging, fr.

pendēre

to hang.]

(Bot.)

Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; – said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.

filipendulous ‎(comparative more filipendulous, superlative most filipendulous)

Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.

suspended by a thread