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Answer for the clue "Capillaceous ", 8 letters:
hairlike

Word definitions for hairlike in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube" [syn: capillary ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Resembling hair; having the texture, consistency, or appearance of hair.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hairlike \hairlike\ adj. shaped like a hair; long and slender. Syn: capillary. long and slender with a very fine internal diameter. Syn: capillary.

Usage examples of hairlike.

Suspended in its depths were brainlike trees of frosted coral, eyelike pips of yellow kelp, hairlike fluids of weed.

A tentacle consists of a thin, straight, hairlike pedicel, carrying a gland on the summit.

The ground cover across the sharp demarcator was the pale yellow of light-starved grass, but the hairlike leaves weren't flattened into blades.

He was out in the open below the plastic bag, which was resting on a bench seat covered in a coarse, hairlike fabric, its back buttressed by cushions, extending away like a long cliff to a padded arm.

When the lighter fluid hit the hairlike things, they made high, mewling cries like kittens which had just been born.

Apart from them, two men had stomach pains - brought on, according to an unsympathetic Aitken, by a surfeit of roast beef - while two of Kenton's men were almost crippled by the hairlike spines of prickly pear cactus which had penetrated the skin of their legs and festered overnight.