Crossword-Solution: FELTWORK 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Throughout this feltwork structure which gradually passes into areolar tissue are numerous muscular fibers, as about the hair-follicles and the oil glands.

The discovery that the central nervous system is composed of a large number of separate units, and not of a feltwork of continuous fibers with cells here and there, revolutionized all previous attempts at explanation of these conditions.

The whole forms an interlacing feltwork formed of watery nerve cells and processes, and not only receives sensory stimuli and transmits them as motor impulses, but is more or less permanently _modified_ by each sensory thrill which enters it, memorising each, more or less, for longer or shorter time according to its character or intensity.

The pines and firs stood out a rich and generous green against the sensitive azure of the sky, while the olive-colored trunks of the oaks upheld the purple feltwork of swelling buds above.

The latter secrete a quantity of mucus which binds the threads of the discharged nematocysts into a sticky feltwork and this secures particles of sand and mud, the whole forming a long tube in which the animal freely moves.