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Often grown for forage
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filaria
Alternative clues for the word filaria
- Transmitted as larvae by biting insects
- Slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates
- 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
Word definitions for filaria in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of the parasitic nematode worms of Filarioidea superfamily that live in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Filaria \Fi*la"ri*a\, n. [NL., fr. L. filum a thread.] (Zo["o]l.) a former genus comprised of certain nematodes, now classed as belonging to several genera within the family Onchocercidae . See Onchocerca and Guinea worm .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 [syn: redstem ...
Usage examples of filaria.
They could alight on a sleeping man without waking him and insinuate their poisoned needles deep into his flesh, sucking his blood, injecting itches, fever, the parasitic worms of filaria, and slow death.
There is a comparable filaria that infects man and clogs up the lymphatic ducts.
Although elephantiasis is met with in all climates, it is more common in the tropics, and its occurrence has been repeatedly demonstrated in these localities to be dependent on the presence in the lymphatics of the filaria sanguinis hominis.
February, 1896, Henry of Philadelphia showed microscopic slides containing blood which was infested with numbers of living and active filaria embryos.