English noun: filaria |
1. | filaria (plant) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage |
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| Synonyms | alfilaria, alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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| Broader (hypernym) | heron's bill, storksbill |
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2. | filaria (animal) slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects |
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| Broader (hypernym) | nematode, nematode worm, roundworm |
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| Member meronym | family Filariidae, Filariidae |
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