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