"thread-like" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more thread-like",
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    {
      "form": "most thread-like",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "threadlike"
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          "ref": "1897, Karl Freiherr von Tubeuf, Diseases of Plants Induced by Cryptogamic Parasites, Introduction to the Study of Pathogenic Fungi, Slime-Fungi, Bacteria, & Algae, page 10:",
          "text": "The Erysipheae are typical epiphytes, which weave a mycelium over the surface of plants they attack; the mycelium retains its hold by adhesion-discs or appressoria, and from certain parts of these a fine thread-like process is given off, which, after piercing the epidermal wall of the host, swells inside to a simple or branched sac, the haustorium.",
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        "Alternative form of threadlike."
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  "word": "thread-like"
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    {
      "form": "more thread-like",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most thread-like",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "word": "threadlike"
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          "text": "The Erysipheae are typical epiphytes, which weave a mycelium over the surface of plants they attack; the mycelium retains its hold by adhesion-discs or appressoria, and from certain parts of these a fine thread-like process is given off, which, after piercing the epidermal wall of the host, swells inside to a simple or branched sac, the haustorium.",
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  "word": "thread-like"
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