Sentence examples for filiform from inspiring English sources

Antennae are multisegmented in neuropterans and filiform in Megaloptera and Raphidiodea.

In Old World Asparagus (which includes the former families Protasparagus and Myrsiphyllum), the true leaves are reduced to scales or spines, but terminal internodes of the stem form cladodes (leaflike, green organs that are filiform to variously laminate).

The tongue of all cats, which has a patch of sharp, backward-directed spines called filiform papillae near the tip, has the appearance and feel of a coarse file; the spines help the cat to groom itself.

SOMEHOW I always knew my executive pursuits would end with me lying face down on a massage table at Sage Hampton Spa in Wainscott, N.Y., naked except for a towel around my waist, perforated from head to toe by two dozen fine filiform Chinese acupuncture needles, splayed out like a road-killed porcupine beneath the winter moon.