FILARIIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Filariidae mean? 

• FILARIIDAE (noun)
  The noun FILARIIDAE has 1 sense:

1. threadlike roundworms

  Familiarity information: FILARIIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILARIIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Threadlike roundworms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Filariidae; Filariidae

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

worm family (a family of worms)

Meronyms (members of "Filariidae"):

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

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

Aschelminthes; Nematoda; phylum Aschelminthes; phylum Nematoda (unsegmented worms: roundworms; threadworms; eelworms)