filaria

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

19th century, from translingual Filaria (name of type genus), from Latin filum (“thread”).

[126] This disease is the Filaria Medinensis, or Guinea Worm. — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846, James Richardson

redstem storksbill, alfilaria, alfileria, filaree, clocks, pin grass, pin clover, Erodium cicutarium

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