thready

as in ropey

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Recent Examples of thready His pulse was thready and fast, his belly distended, his bowel ominously silent. Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2011 Simard’s transformative contribution to arboreal science has been to explain the function of mycorrhizal networks—a webbing of thready fungi, reticulated through and expanding beyond tree roots, fastening trees to one another in the soil. Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021 Similar to Sporothrix, Coccidioides has two forms, starting with a thready, fragile one that exists in soil and breaks apart when soil is disturbed. Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021 Many patients, despite a thready pulse and low blood pressure, did not appear to be in clinical shock. Jennet Conant, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2020 Those on the brink of death — pale complexion, thready pulse — got red. Matt Hamilton, latimes.com, 4 Oct. 2017 Mushrooms grow from a thready substance called mycelia that sits just underground, spreading across a region to encourage growth of the fungi fruit. Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017 Mushrooms grow from a thready substance called mycelia that sits just underground, spreading across a region to encourage growth of the fungi fruit. Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thready
Adjective
  • With a rocker’s bleached-out shag, ropy arms vined with tattoos and jangly silver bracelets, and skintight jeans slashed by rips and rivets, Mr. Webb was a proudly resolute bearer of the punk-glam torch, even as the decades moved inexorably along.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Nearly 2m Ukrainians have arrived since 2014, pushed by a ropy national economy and a war in the country’s east, and pulled by higher wages in Poland.
    The Economist, The Economist, 22 Feb. 2020
Adjective
  • In this case: a stringy slot corner who never had been credited for a sack in his college career.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Certain digestive disorders can lead to soft, stringy stool.
    Cristina Mutchler, Health, 8 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • In the rare occurrence of distress, it might be caused by an intestinal blockage due to consuming the large, fibrous leaves.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2024
  • In 2024, all the best independent horror games are rooted in the original PlayStation’s fibrous, lo-fi textures and long-nosed polygons.
    Ashley Bardhan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • But the more important issue to address also will be the knottiest politically.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2024
  • If more power is needed to cope with knotty traffic or to blitz up a highway onramp to merge with traffic streaming through Downtown LA’s Heart of Darkness where the 110, 101, 10 and 5 coalesce, the gas engine kicks in, bringing a grand total of 313 horsepower and an impressive 406 lb.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024

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“Thready.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thready. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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