filamentous, filiform, filamentlike, threadlike, thready
(adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread
Source: WordNet® 3.1
filiform (comparative more filiform, superlative most filiform)
Shaped like or resembling a thread or filament; filamentous.
Having all component parts or segments cylindrical and more or less uniform in size.
Source: Wiktionary
Fil"i*form, a. Etym: [L. filum thread + -form: cf. F. filiforme.]
Definition: Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillæ of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennÆ.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 May 2025
(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
