"filiferous" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Etymology: From Latin filum (“a thread”) + -ferous. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|filum||a thread}} Latin filum (“a thread”), {{affix|en|-ferous}} -ferous Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} filiferous (not comparable)
  1. Producing or constituting threads. Tags: not-comparable
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