filaria
Nouns
- (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 alfilaria, alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill,
- (n) slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects