Crossword-Solution: FILUM 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The spinal cord in man extends only as far downwards as the last dorsal or first lumbar vertebra; but a thread-like structure (the filum terminale) runs down the axis of the sacral part of the spinal canal, and even along the back of the coccygeal bones.

The charts may show you that this river is the boundary of a certain state; but who shall tell where or what that boundary may be? Who can trace the _filum aquae_ of the most erratic and arrogant river in all the world? The river is not now as it was ten years ago, nor the same to-day as it will be ten years hence.

Ferns are termed _Filices_, from the Latin word _filum_, a thread, because of their filamentary fronds.

The word "flax" is derived from _filare_, to spin, or, _filum_, a thread; and the botanical title, _linum_, is got from the Celtic _lin_ also signifying thread.

THE FILUM.--The running stem of a creeping plant /# It is not specified in the text for use; but will be necessary; so also, perhaps, the Stelechos, or stalk proper (26), the branched stem of an annual plant, not a grass; one cannot well talk of the Virga of hemlock.