filiety

[Lat. filius =a son.] The relation of a son to his father; sonship; filiation. (J.S. Mill: Logic, bk. i., ch. ii., § 7.) fil-if-er-ous, a. [Lat. filum a thread, fero = to bear, and Eng. adj. suff. -ous.] Bearing or producing threads. marine; gō, pot, filiform fil'-I-form, a . [Lat. filum =a thread, and form a =form, appearance; Fr. & Sp. fil i for me . Having the form of a thread; long, slender, round, and equally thick throughout. filiform-apparatus, s . The name given by Schacht to a shining ma constituting part of the embryonic vesicles in an ovule.