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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


Synonymsalfilaria, alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill


Broader (hypernym)heron's bill, storksbill

2. filaria (animal) slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects


Broader (hypernym)nematode, nematode worm, roundworm


Member meronymfamily Filariidae, Filariidae









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