This is a series of posts on interesting and unusual words and phrases.
The first set of words are adjectives that describe a shape and are often used in botany, mineralogy, and describing artistic forms.
The word for today is capillaceous: hair-like in shape, from the Latin capillaceus, “hairy”, from capillus, hair
A term often applied to aquatic plants such as the Blunt-fruited Water-starwort (Callitriche obtusangula)
https://www.natureplprints.com/2020vision/2/aquatic-plants-river-itchen-blunt-fruited-15363699.html
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