FILARIA (filariiae)

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Irregular inflected form: filariiae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does filaria mean? 

• FILARIA (noun)
  The noun FILARIA has 2 senses:

1. 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

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

  Familiarity information: FILARIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

alfilaria; alfileria; clocks; Erodium cicutarium; filaree; filaria; pin clover; pin grass; redstem storksbill

Hypernyms ("filaria" is a kind of...):

heron's bill; storksbill (any of various plants of the genus Erodium)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("filaria" is a kind of...):

nematode; nematode worm; roundworm (unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic)

Holonyms ("filaria" is a member of...):

family Filariidae; Filariidae (threadlike roundworms)

Derivation:

filarial (related to or infested with or transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria)