filaria Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
    pin grass; alfileria; pin clover; clocks; redstem storksbill; Erodium cicutarium; alfilaria; filaree.
  2. noun slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects

WordNet

Fi*la"ri*a noun
Etymology
NL., fr. L. filum a thread.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm.

Webster 1913