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Filipendulous

Filipendulous

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

Origin: L. Filum a thread _ pendulus hanging, fr. Pendre to hang.


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